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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: strlcpy
From:       Grzegorz Borowiak <grzes () gnu ! univ ! gda ! pl>
Date:       2002-12-10 14:50:43
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Pavel Troller wrote:

> Hi!
>   When compiling kdenetwork of 3_1_BRANCH, it failed with unknown strlcpy()
> function in lanbrowsing/kio_lan. I replaced both its calls with strncpy()
> and it compiled. However, because I never heard of strlcpy(), I don't know
> whether it's OK or not. It's a recent update, formerly there was just
> strcpy() in the code.

When source string is longer than n, strlcpy copies n-1 bytes and adds a
'\0' on the end, while strncpy just copies n bytes and doesn't add a '\0'.
Hence, strlcpy is safer.

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