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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:58:52 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:20:08 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199907152358.QAA01894@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
: 	if (strlen(buf) >= sizeof(buf))
: 		return(error);

This can never be true with the strl functions....  They don't run off
the end, so strlen(buf) is always going to be < sizeof(buf) since it
doesn't include the traling null.

Warner


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