> On 27 Jun 2024, at 06:01, Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
>> Em dom., 23 de jun. de 2024 às 23:56, Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
>> escreveu:
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 7:51 AM Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> memcpy with strlen does not copy the whole string.
>>>> strlen returns the exact length of the string, without
>>>> the null-termination.
>>>
>>> I noticed that the two callers of do_pg_backup_start both allocate
>>> BackupState with palloc0. Can we rely on this to ensure that the
>>> BackupState.name is initialized with null-termination?
>>>
>> I do not think so.
In this case we can, we do that today..
> However, I wonder it is better to use strlcpy without assuming such the good
> manner of callers.
..that being said I agree that it seems safer to use strlcpy() here.
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Daniel Gustafsson