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From: Elias Athanasopoulos <eathan@otenet.gr>
Subject: Re: exploitable function
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:58:04 +0300
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:26:03PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
  
> But note that strncpy() isn't much better, for two reasons:
 
Yes. Better use strdup(). In binutils we use xstrdup() in most of
the cases and str[n]cpy() carefully.

Elias

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