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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: string.c: Added a funktion function strzcpy
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:58:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140924145858.GK28253@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFo99gZUfFUB9xX0GYW=hJMNouiU-M9apZ8KtPg9MW3x7gxZcg@mail.gmail.com>

> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-23 22:13 Rickard Strandqvist
2014-09-23 22:13 ` Rickard Strandqvist
2014-09-23 22:40   ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-24  1:17   ` Andi Kleen
2014-09-24  7:52     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-24 14:14       ` Lennart Sorensen
2014-09-24 14:35       ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]         ` <CAFo99gZUfFUB9xX0GYW=hJMNouiU-M9apZ8KtPg9MW3x7gxZcg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-24 14:58           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-09-24 15:41         ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-24 20:51           ` Rickard Strandqvist
2014-09-24 21:26             ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-24 21:49               ` Rickard Strandqvist
2014-09-24 22:55                 ` Andi Kleen

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