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From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 4th edition file server available 
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:11:08 -0700
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I agree, this opens up a whole new can of worms, as illustrated here:

Miller, T. C., Raadt, T. D.
strlcpy and strlcat -- Consistent, Safe, String Copy and Concatenation.
Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference. June,
1999. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/strlcpy-paper.ps

on the other hand I think we're in the unique position to fix strncpy
instead of adding another syscall -- after all it's not Ken C we're
dealing with :)

andrey

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Scott Schwartz wrote:

> Andrey writes:
> | <               strncpy(system, p, sizeof system);
>
> That still has the problem that strncpy is not required to NUL terminate
> the destination.  How about strecpy?
>