svn commit: r292454 - head/bin/ed
Pedro Giffuni
pfg at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 19 01:52:23 UTC 2015
> Il giorno 18/dic/2015, alle ore 18:46, Conrad Meyer <cem at FreeBSD.org> ha scritto:
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi Warner;
>>
>>> Il giorno 18/dic/2015, alle ore 17:01, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Isn’t strlcpy() the more appropriate interface? strncpy doesn’t guarantee NUL termination.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe, but we were using strcpy() which doesn’t guarantee NULL termination either
>> and things have been working. I also thought that portability may be specially important
>> for the stuff in bin/.
>
> strcpy() does guarantee NUL termination. Otherwise it would be useless.
>
Yes , my bad.
I come from a non-C background and sometimes tend to (erronously) think the C library
designers would keep some consistency :-/.
I changed it to strlcpy() a while ago.
Pedro.
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