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SubjectRe: SECURITY - data leakage due to incorrect strncpy implementation
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:

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> 2.5 you have problems all over the place from wrong strlcpy conversions,
> but those are easy enough to clean up before 2.6.0

Perhaps there should be a strncpy_touser() to make it crystal clear that it
_can't_ be "optimized" into strlcpy()
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