Re: Length of wmesg for condvar?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 02:38:32AM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:23:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Should these be changed?  Are there any adverse effects from having a 
> > wmesg longer than 8 characters?
> 
> It seems to me that the exporter of those use strncpy() ....

strncpy() is unlikely to do what is expected of it.
strlcpy() is probably rather better.

        David

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