On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:53:24 +0200,
Justin Stitt wrote:
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> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> _not_ always the ca
On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 09:46:36PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 09:53:24PM +, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > Technically, my patch yields subtly different behavior. The original
> > implementation with `strncpy` would fill the entire destination buffer
> > with null bytes [
On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 09:53:24PM +, Justin Stitt wrote:
> Technically, my patch yields subtly different behavior. The original
> implementation with `strncpy` would fill the entire destination buffer
> with null bytes [3] while `strscpy` will leave the junk, uninitialized
> bytes trailing aft
`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
_not_ always the case for `strncpy`!
It should be noted that, in this case, the destina
