Re: [PATCH] scsi: scsi_devinfo.c: Cleaning up unnecessarily complicated in conjunction with strncpy

[Rickard Strandqvist]

2014-09-15 0:38 GMT+02:00 Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) <Elliott@xxxxxx>:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rickard Strandqvist [mailto:rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> How do you mean?
>>
>> strncpy zeroes throughout the remainder of the string "from" until the
>> length off to_length, or otherwise guaranteed trailing zero characters
>> and a warning is printed.
>>
>> Is not it exactly the functionality that is desired?
>
> Ah, I see that in man 3 strcpy:
>     "If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() pads the
>      remainder of dest with null bytes."
>
> I agree that should work.
>
> ---
> Rob Elliott    HP Server Storage


Hi

Okay, good.
Suspected that there was some misunderstanding :)

Kind regards
Rickard Strandqvist
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