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Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 16:50:34 +1000
From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: tiny patch to pkg_add 
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Bill Swingle wrote:

| > -           strlcpy(packagesite, "", sizeof(packagesite));
| 
| Chris Costello recommended that I do this like this instead:
| 
| packagesite[0] = '\0'
| 
| Which seems to make sense since it lacks the overhead of strlcpy. Is
| there a "right" way to do this?

A C programmer would do it the way Chris suggested.

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