[Asterisk-Dev] [RFC] strncpy -> ast_copy_string

[Brian West]

I also have another question.. why didn't we just override strncpy  
and strlen with our own functions to call them how we want.. instead  
of comign up with ast_strlen_zero and ast_string_copy?

/b

On May 2, 2005, at 8:13 PM, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:46 -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
>>
>> i am fine with that, but i am unhappy about the mixture, in the code,
>> of symbolic constants and magic numbers for apparently similar  
>> fields.
>>
>> If you support variable size strings you pretty much know that
>> truncations may only occur when you put strings into protocol  
>> messages;
>> with the current approach they might happen somewhere in the
>> middle of the chain, and it may be hard to tell where.
>>
>
> This probably has to do with the fact that Asterisk is an active  
> project
> with a lot of contributors.  You're right that this could lead to
> problems.  Someone with some interest needs to sit down with the code
> and come up with a patch. (hint, hint)
>
> Jeff
>
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