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

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

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:11:52PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > 
> > Nope, someone has not read the strlcat man page closely enough. If you
> > screw up in just the right way strlcat WILL NOT null terminate a string.
> 
> You are mixing up strncat and strlcat. The former doesn't NUL-terminate,
> the latter does explicitly in all but one case (n==0).
> 

I repeat.  Someone has not read the strlcat man page properly.
Seriously.  The belief that strlcat will always nul terminate is wrong.

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