Re: safe strcpy()?

From: mlhat_private
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 15:37:36 PST

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:37:37PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> I'd suggest not using C's string handling functions at all, they're way
> too annoying to be used safely (or at all, really). There's many
> libraries that make things easier for you, GLIB and libowfat comes to my
> mind at first. I've also put a stripped down version of my library
> available at http://irccrew.org/~cras/security/lib/

Another library 'libslack' has a rich set of string functions:

	http://libslack.org/manpages/str.3.html

Matt

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