Doesn't this affect readability? Would it be easier to make the layout
symbol size 15 (one less than the monitor symbol)?

On Sat, 13 Aug 2022, 05:00 NRK, <[email protected]> wrote:

> the dwm source code somewhat silently assumes that the symbol will fit
> into 16 bytes. but this may not be the case since users can define
> longer symbols in `config.h` (and there's no comment or note stating
> anything about the size requirement).
>
> this patch syncs the sizeof Layout->symbol and Monitor->ltsymbol to be
> the same which should emit a warning if the symbol in config.h is longer
> than 17 bytes.
>
> however, there's still an edge case where the symbol is exactly 17 bytes
> (including the nul character), in which case there won't be any
> warnings. so use stpncpy and manually ensure nul termination.
> ---
>  dwm.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
> index 967c9e8..86c4985 100644
> --- a/dwm.c
> +++ b/dwm.c
> @@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ typedef struct {
>  } Key;
>
>  typedef struct {
> -       const char *symbol;
> +       const char symbol[16];
>         void (*arrange)(Monitor *);
>  } Layout;
>
>  struct Monitor {
> -       char ltsymbol[16];
> +       char ltsymbol[sizeof ((Layout *)0)->symbol];
>         float mfact;
>         int nmaster;
>         int num;
> @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ arrange(Monitor *m)
>  void
>  arrangemon(Monitor *m)
>  {
> -       strncpy(m->ltsymbol, m->lt[m->sellt]->symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol);
> +       *stpncpy(m->ltsymbol, m->lt[m->sellt]->symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol
> - 1) = '\0';
>         if (m->lt[m->sellt]->arrange)
>                 m->lt[m->sellt]->arrange(m);
>  }
> @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ createmon(void)
>         m->topbar = topbar;
>         m->lt[0] = &layouts[0];
>         m->lt[1] = &layouts[1 % LENGTH(layouts)];
> -       strncpy(m->ltsymbol, layouts[0].symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol);
> +       *stpncpy(m->ltsymbol, layouts[0].symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol - 1) =
> '\0';
>         return m;
>  }
>
> @@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@ setlayout(const Arg *arg)
>                 selmon->sellt ^= 1;
>         if (arg && arg->v)
>                 selmon->lt[selmon->sellt] = (Layout *)arg->v;
> -       strncpy(selmon->ltsymbol, selmon->lt[selmon->sellt]->symbol,
> sizeof selmon->ltsymbol);
> +       *stpncpy(selmon->ltsymbol, selmon->lt[selmon->sellt]->symbol,
> sizeof selmon->ltsymbol - 1) = '\0';
>         if (selmon->sel)
>                 arrange(selmon);
>         else
> --
> 2.35.1
>
>
>

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