use of strncpy and strlen
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au
Tue Jan 15 17:04:03 GMT 2002
Benjamin Kuit wrote:
>
> Not sure if the respective developers are aware of the problem, but
> there are some occurances whereby people use Strncpy (or strncpy) with
> strlen like this:
>
> Strncpy(dest, src, strlen(src));
>
> Instead of using the size of the destination buffer for the length
> parameter.
>
> The developers might aswell #undef strcpy and use it instead.
>
> Just my 1 cents worth. =)
Yep, I fixed up a pile of these in passdb in HEAD, but they havn't made
it to 2.2 yet.
Can you give a list? These need to be squahed...
Andrew Bartlett
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