Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:48:49 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strncpy bugs Message-ID: <v04210101b5b13053e745@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200008042133.PAA13109@harmony.village.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008041423330.68512-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <200008042133.PAA13109@harmony.village.org>
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At 3:33 PM -0600 8/4/00, Warner Losh wrote: > >Usually, I do the following stylaistically: > strncpy(dst, src, X); > dst[X] = '\0'; >where X is the size of the buffer minus 1. > >This goes to show how right Theo de Raadt was with his strlcpy >API change :-). Getting this right is too tedious to be left >to the user. So, should we change our habits, and use strlcpy fixes instead of repeatedly rewriting strncpy fixes? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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