[Opendnssec-develop] string handling
Jakob Schlyter
jakob at kirei.se
Thu Apr 9 18:14:31 UTC 2009
On 9 apr 2009, at 13.50, Rick van Rein wrote:
> I like strlcat/strlcpy more than strncat/strncpy, but there's one
> worry
> as far as I'm concerned. Their spec has an exceptional case if the
> size
> argument is 0. I if had designed the function I would have exited on
> those grounds, or at least raise a signal that could be caught.
I'm not worried at all. based on my experience from OpenBSD, this is a
academic problem give how the functions are being used.
> We do need to be mindful about such things as much as we need to be
> mindful
> about potential misinterpretations of strncat/strncpy.
or we do need to be mindful about getting a signer written instead of
ratholing.
sorry if I'm rude, but this is really a non-problem at this point.
jakob
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