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To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: generic strncpy - off-by-one error
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:09:27 +0200
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:

|> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:50:06 +0900, Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourcefo=
rge.jp>  said:
|>=20
|> > -	while (count) {
|> > +	while (count > 1) {
|>=20
|> Given that count is a size_t, which seems to be derived from 'unsigned i=
nt'  or
|> 'unsigned long' on every platform, how are these any different?

Let's suppose count =3D=3D 1.

Andreas.

=2D-=20
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