Re: safe strcpy()?

From: Ed Carp (erc@pobox.com)
Date: 01/30/03

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From: Ed Carp <erc@pobox.com>
To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

    On 29 Jan 2003, Ben Pfaff wrote:

    > As a result, strncpy() is hardly ever the right function to use.
    > strlcpy() from OpenBSD is usually a better choice.

    The problem with strlcpy is that there's no autpmated way to retrofit old
    code with it. It's great for new code development, though. 

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