On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> writes: > >> Also, if 'buf' is indeed unconditionally NUL-terminated, then the (sp >> <= buf + size) check is wasted code since the result of strstr() will >> always be either NULL or pointing somewhere within the NUL-terminated >> string. > > A caller can give a buf that is NUL terminated but specify that the > only early part of the buffer to be used by giving you a shorter > size, no? In such a case, strstr() is safe in the sense that it is > guaranteed not to go on forever, but you need to verify the location > of the string it found is within the bounds.
That was the idea behind this, but will stick to Matthieu's suggestion. -- Regards, Karthik Nayak -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
