On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, David Brownell wrote:

> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>
> >>strlcpy?
> >
> >
> > No need, when the length is obviously less.
>
> True, not "necessary" in this case ... but it's still
> IMO a much better practice.  And if we're serious about
> rubbing out that family of bugs, we'll just deprecate
> "strncpy" and eventually remove it from the kernel.
>
> What's "obvious" today may be false tomorrow, especially
> after a few rounds of cut/paste/modify.

Yep, i vote ;-) for strlcpy too.  Seems cleaner practice to me.


                Petko


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