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From: Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs use safe string manipulation functions
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:37:01 +0000
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Olaf van der Spek wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Thomas Bellman <bellman@nsc.liu.se>
> wrote:
>> strncpy(args.name, source, BTRFS_PATH_NAME_MAX);
>> args.name[BTRFS_PATH_NAME_MAX] = '\0';
> 
> That's silly. Isn't there a sane safe variant of strcpy?

There's strlcpy, but it's not in glibc because of possible truncation 
errors!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strlcpy

Of course C++ strings would be much better... :-)

Jeremy