Re: [PATCH] string: Improve the generic strlcpy() implementation

[Alexey Dobriyan]

I want to say two things:

1) strlcpy race

>  * In addition, the implementation is robust to the string changing out
>  * from underneath it, unlike the current strlcpy() implementation.

Canonical OpenBSD version does byte-by-byte copying,
this race is purely Linux invention.

2) strscpy() will copy garbage past NUL from source into destination.
It won't fault but still, who knows what lies after string.
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