Re: (yet) more buffer paranoia - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: (yet) more buffer paranoia
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208281855170.951-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to (yet) more buffer paranoia  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: (yet) more buffer paranoia
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Neil Conway writes:

> This patches replaces a few more usages of strcpy() and sprintf() when
> copying into a fixed-size buffer (in this case, a buffer of
> NAMEDATALEN bytes). AFAICT nothing to worry about here, but worth
> fixing anyway...

Changing strcpy to strncpy is incorrect.  strncpy should be banned.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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