On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:19:35PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:04:16PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
> > - strlcpy(packagesite, "", sizeof(packagesite));
>
> Chris Costello recommended that I do this like this instead:
>
> packagesite[0] = '\0'
>
> Which seems to make sense since it lacks the overhead of strlcpy. Is
> there a "right" way to do this?
I think Chris's version is right, although if you're writing a
security app, or just want to be overly paranoid in general
you could use:
bzero((void *)packagesite, sizeof(packagesite));
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