Re: [GIT PULL] strscpy string copy function

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jul 01 2015 - 12:11:53 EST


On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Linus,
>
> The discussion on this died down on LKML [1], so either (a) everybody loved
> it and
> it was obviously correct, or (b) everybody lost interest. I'm
> optimistically
> assuming (a), but willing to hear otherwise!
>
> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/643140/

Ugh. I thought we agreed to not have the odd "make it zero-sized"
thing be the default.

Let's just make something that is a sane version of strncpy/strlcpy,
not introduce yet another "str*cpy with really odd semantics for the
corner case"

Linus
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