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

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

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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