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Re: PATCH: safe string copy and concetation
- To: James Antill <james at and dot org>
- Subject: Re: PATCH: safe string copy and concetation
- From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: Chiaki Ishikawa <Chiaki dot Ishikawa at personal-media dot co dot jp>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> Certainly, strlcpy is easy:
>
> #define strlcpy(a, b, c) sprintf(a, "%.*s", b, (int) ((c)-1))
>
> Did I get that right? The idea is to copy at most c-1 characters from string a
On second reading, no I didn't! The int parameter must precede the char * one.
Oops! :)