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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Eric Dorland
  • Date: 2009-03-29 03:56:10 UTC
  • mto: (8.2.1 squeeze)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 17.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090329035610-y7v5a3f0852p4da8
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strncpy() is unsafe since it does not always add a final NUL-byte.
 
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OpenBSD developped a safer version called strlcpy().
 
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Use "man -l strlcpy.3" to read the manpage.
 
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The files strlcpy.3 and strlcpy.c comes from
 
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  ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/lib/libc/string/
 
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and are Copyright (c) 1998, 2000 Todd C. Miller
 
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