Re: [PATCH] doc: avoid strncpy in accounting tool

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Thu Jun 06 2013 - 12:52:34 EST


Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Avoid strncpy anti-pattern. Use strdup() instead, as already done for
> the logfile optarg.

There should be no need to copy the string, option arguments are stable.

Andreas.

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