* PATCH: fix strncpy on generic user platforms
@ 2003-07-27 20:23 Alan Cox
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From: Alan Cox @ 2003-07-27 20:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel, torvalds
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.6.0-test2/lib/string.c linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/lib/string.c
--- linux-2.6.0-test2/lib/string.c 2003-07-10 21:13:38.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/lib/string.c 2003-07-17 17:46:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@
* @src: Where to copy the string from
* @count: The maximum number of bytes to copy
*
- * Note that unlike userspace strncpy, this does not %NUL-pad the buffer.
- * However, the result is not %NUL-terminated if the source exceeds
+ * The result is not %NUL-terminated if the source exceeds
* @count bytes.
*/
char * strncpy(char * dest,const char *src,size_t count)
@@ -90,7 +89,8 @@
while (count-- && (*dest++ = *src++) != '\0')
/* nothing */;
-
+ while (count-- > 0)
+ *dest++ = 0;
return tmp;
}
#endif
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