Compatibility options for mount(8)

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:47:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 2. Please use strncmp().  I know other parts of the same code use strcmp()
> > and those should really be improved at some other time, but while you're
> > already there you might as well use strncmp() (you'll see others have
> > done the same), i.e.:
> >
> >                         } else if (strncmp(p, "remount", 7) == 0) {
> 
> What is the rationale behind this?

Primarily security and stability.  I won't get into a discussion about
this as it'll just bikeshed, particularly when there's an almost
indefinite amount of information online about the dangers of strcmp(3).

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