From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
glibc <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: "tech@openbsd.org" <tech@openbsd.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
drepper@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] strcpys(): New function for copying strings safely
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:10:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ea2efaf-7898-9723-54e7-2cd59702f854@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d27912e6-f090-68af-295d-d40b00c1b0a7@gmail.com>
On 6/28/21 2:00 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> l = strscat(n - l, dest + l, src2);
Hmm, that's a bug; I wrote it too fast.
Either
l += strscpy(n - l, dest + l, src2);
or
l = strscat(n - l, dest, src2);
should be used instead.
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-28 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-27 19:26 [RFC] strcpys(): New function for copying strings safely Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-06-27 19:46 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-06-28 8:15 ` David Laight
2021-06-28 11:32 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-06-28 12:00 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-06-28 12:10 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
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