Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2003 10:51:02 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: Resend [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE |
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On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 08:52:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > How about just adding a sane > > int copy_string(char *dest, const char *src, int len) > { > int size; > > if (!len) > return 0; > size = strlen(src); > if (size >= len) > size = len-1; > memcpy(dest, src, size); > dest[size] = '\0'; > return size; > }
The return value here isn't particularly useful. The OpenBSD strlcpy/strlcat variant tell you how big the result should have been so that you can realloc if need be.
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