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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Are ut_user and ut_host in struct utmp NUL-terminated?
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:44:25 +0200
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On Aug 13 2018, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Can ut_user be exactly UT_NAMESIZE bytes long?  Or is it necessary to set
> aside a byte with the NUL terminator?

login from util-linux doesn't null terminate.

Andreas.

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