Re: [PATCH] lib: string.c: Added a funktion function strzcpy

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Sep 24 2014 - 10:59:05 EST


> I can show a large amount of patches that show that many people do not
> seem aware that strncpy does not guarantee a terminating null character.
> Add to that all the code I've seen like this:

Yes that's understood.

The question was: where do we rely on the padding semantics of strncpy?

-Andi
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