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

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <20050502164054.92481.qmail at web52409.mail.yahoo.com>,
Ledion B <tekixhunga at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >n will _always_ be greater than strlen(src), at least
> >99.99% of the cases. We are copying strings into 
> >fixed-size buffers that always have enough room.
> 
> I was worrying about this being the case. So I did a
> real quick scan through the *'s code and yes indeed
> that is the case, that most of the time strncpy is
> called with the size of the destination buffer. 

That is the whole purpose of the third argument to strncpy() !!!

Cheers
Tony
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