From: Thomas Bellman <bellman@nsc.liu.se>
To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs use safe string manipulation functions
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:41:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D53DCE2.50306@nsc.liu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=gBD0F143APDJEYSw+LXkrS+aOeq6zR-o8MFzs@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-02-10 13:27, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> wrote:
>> snprintf is standard, and should be about as safe as it gets with the
>> glibc functions.
>
> But snprintf is not like strlcpy.
It is indeed uglier to write 'snprintf(dst, size, "%s", src)' instead of
'strlcpy(dst, src, size)', but both the effect and the return value should
be identical.
/Bellman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-07 12:22 [PATCH] Btrfs-progs use safe string manipulation functions Eduardo Silva
2011-02-07 18:17 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2011-02-10 11:08 ` Thomas Bellman
2011-02-10 11:21 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 11:37 ` Jeremy Sanders
2011-02-10 11:39 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 13:29 ` Eduardo Silva
2011-02-10 13:34 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 13:41 ` Eduardo Silva
[not found] ` <1297345079.28159.14.camel@monotop>
2011-02-10 13:52 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 14:00 ` Eduardo Silva
2011-02-10 14:05 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 18:39 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2011-02-11 12:41 ` Lars Wirzenius
2011-02-10 11:54 ` Lars Wirzenius
2011-02-10 12:27 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 12:41 ` Thomas Bellman [this message]
2011-02-10 15:17 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-02-10 11:49 ` Eduardo Silva
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