In message: <20030727210203.GU1485@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
: On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:57:09PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
: > strlcpy is for strings, not for character arrays.
: > The *BSD version accesses the source past the size-1 characters
: > that are copied:
: > while (*s++)
: > ;
: > Thus, replacing strncpy (used to copy character arrays, possibly
: > not 0-terminated) by strlcpy is wrong.
Ah, that's to get the silly return value correct :-(.
Warner
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