On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 01:31:24AM +0100, Morten Welinder wrote: > A recent article on BugTraq suggested that using strcpy should > almost always be considered a bug. That's not right. It is, > in fact, the wrong way around: strncpy is almost always a bug. > Hi, What's wrong with using the following (I got the idea from some of Stevens' code)? char *sstrcpy(char *dst, size_t n, const char *src) { if (strlen(src) > (n - 1)) { errno = ENOSPC; return NULL; } strcpy(dst, src); dst[n - 1] = '\0'; return dst; } (the first 's' stands for safe (I hope)) It's not MT safe, but other than that I can't see any problems. Chris
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