On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:09 AM Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sreekanth,
>
> > I verified strscpy() is not adding any null terminator when source
> > string length is greater than destination buffer size.
>
> That's odd. The point of strscpy() is that it guarantees termination:
>
> ---8<---
> /**
>  * strscpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer
>  * @dest: Where to copy the string to
>  * @src: Where to copy the string from
>  * @count: Size of destination buffer
>  *
>  * Copy the string, or as much of it as fits, into the dest buffer.  The
>  * behavior is undefined if the string buffers overlap.  The destination
>  * buffer is always NUL terminated, unless it's zero-sized.
> ---8<---
>
> I tested it and it works fine for me.

Ok, my bad. I made a small mistake while verifying it. Now I rectified
it and saw that strscpy() is adding a NULL character at the end.

Thanks,
Sreekanth

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> Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering