From: Eli Cohen <echoline@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] strndup should use strnlen and memcpy
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:05:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHwi9by6odbaedOUKe1ZB3hS7rqH8NxHyXbCM2Xn2nQr5Hs2WA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHwi9bwwU3Q4gM80w=576U-NE0GT=-xYeR+qJakYNg0TNnDrnA@mail.gmail.com>
it's kind of surprising to me, I wasn't able to find much more on
google about it than this
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa18/cse127-a/CSE127fa18.3-Savage.pdf
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:02 AM Eli Cohen <echoline@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am very surprised either way :o
>
> it should definitely be strnlen... strn* are specifically for cases
> where you want to specify a length, specifically where the strings are
> not necessarily null-terminated
>
> this is probably all my fault, I apologize for horsing around. it does
> seem like I saw the cover of a DVD of that movie wargames once but I'm
> sure there's more to it...?
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 2:50 AM Kemal <kemalinanc8@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2020-12-18 13:31 GMT+03:00, Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir <ftrvxmtrx@gmail.com>:
> > >> Open Group does not specify if arg1 should be null terminated or not.
> > >> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strdup.html
> > >
> > > "Applications should not assume that strndup() will allocate ( size + 1)
> > > bytes when strlen(s) is smaller than size."
> > >
> > > Pretty sure this means it's supposed to be null-terminated, or
> > > otherwise it wouldn't mention the "dangerous" strlen right there.
> > >
> > >
> > I don't know, I also think that str is \0 terminated but that seems a
> > bit unclear.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-18 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-18 8:22 Xiao-Yong Jin
2020-12-18 8:38 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2020-12-18 9:01 ` tlaronde
2020-12-18 9:59 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2020-12-18 10:21 ` Kemal
2020-12-18 10:31 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2020-12-18 10:48 ` Kemal
2020-12-18 11:02 ` Eli Cohen
2020-12-18 11:05 ` Eli Cohen [this message]
2020-12-18 11:29 ` tlaronde
2020-12-18 11:37 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2020-12-18 11:43 ` Eli Cohen
2020-12-18 11:50 ` Kemal
2020-12-18 11:55 ` Eli Cohen
2020-12-18 12:06 ` Kemal
2020-12-18 13:22 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2020-12-18 14:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-18 14:26 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-18 15:27 ` ori
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