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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:17:53 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: string.c:  Added a funktion function strzcpy
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:13:36AM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Added a function strzcpy which works the same as strncpy,
> but guaranteed to produce the trailing null character.

Do we really need the bizarre strncpy padding semantics for anything? 
Why not just use strlcpy?

-Andi