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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] exec: avoid gcc-8 warning for get_task_comm
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 10:11:27 +0000
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From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 05 December 2017 15:17
> gcc-8 warns about using strncpy() with the source size as the limit:

Hmmm... Someone 'fixed' some of those in the NetBSD tree a few years back.
There was one place where the code was correct.
A potentially unterminated string was being copied into a buffer that was
one byte longer.

	David