Re: using "(void)" casts to purposefully ignore return values

[Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 06:14:10AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 
> If you pass an unterminated string to ~any other string function,
> demons fly out of your nose. I'm not sure why you think there's
> anything noteworthy about strlcpy's behavior in this case.
> 

I really really wish people would read the man page properly before
pontificating.  If you pass a string that is longer than the size you
told strlcat then the dst will not be nul terminated, of course this is
a screw up, passing bad parameters to strlcat.  I just find it
annoying that people have blind faith that strlcat will always DTRT no
matter what.  This is not the case.

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