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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2016 23:26:03 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is ut_user[] in struct utmpx NUL terminated?
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Hi Don,

2016-05-25 23:14 GMT+02:00 Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>:
> Going in the other direction, getutxent()
> calls futx_to_utx(), which uses the FTOU_STRING() macro, which in turn
> uses strncpy() to copy the data back out.

Keep in mind that strcpy() is called with a size that is at most one
less than sizeof(ut->ut_user). The final byte in the array is never
overwritten.

-- 
Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
KvK-nr.: 62051717



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