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Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 10:10:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On 25 May 2003, Adam Sampson wrote:
> 
> If you're going to do this, it might make sense to call it "strlcpy"
> for consistency with the OpenBSD-introduced function of the same name
> that's getting included in a lot of userspace these days...

Sure, done. I'll check it in asap (and I'll make the devfs parts that Ben 
was unhappy about use it too).

Somebody (else ;) should probably go through our current uses of strncpy()  
and see if they make sense. Some of them probably do, but I suspect 
anything name/path related does not.

		Linus