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Re: new module 'strlcpy'


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: new module 'strlcpy'
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:01:34 -0700
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On 09/27/2017 11:29 PM, Dmitry Selyutin wrote:
How about strscpy from the Linux kernel?

Yes, that's a better API than strlcpy. Though I would change its ssize_t to ptrdiff_t, so that it depends only on stddef.h. Plus, I would define its behavior even if the buffers overlap - that's safer, and the function is for when safety is more important than performance or correctness.




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