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

Russell Bryant russelb at CLEMSON.EDU
Tue May 3 13:10:45 MST 2005


Brian West wrote:
> 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?

In the case of ast_strlen_zero, it obviously provides different 
functionality.

For ast_copy_string, it doesn't actually do the same thing at strncpy. 
One of these days, someone may expect the buffer to be padded with '\0'.

Russell



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