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Alex wrote:
I've been trying to figure out why the original author used strndupa in the first place but haven't wrapped my mind around it yet.
Presumably the original author didn't know about "%.*s". The string is not null-terminated, so "%s" won't work, and I guess the original author used strndupa to create a null-terminated copy.
Beware of int overflow when using "%.*s", by the way.
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