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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:58:58 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: string.c: Added a funktion function strzcpy
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> 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