Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 May 2015 18:01:40 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] string: provide strscpy() and strscpy_truncate() |
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:01:16PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > +ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count) > +{ > + ssize_t res = strscpy_truncate(dest, src, count); > + if (res < 0 && count != 0) > + dest[0] = '\0';
How is this better than returning a truncated string? Is it just because the caller was naughty so we give them a spanking?
> + return res; > +}
regards, dan carpenter
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