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Re: strscpy

To: Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>
Subject: Re: strscpy
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 21:03:33 +0200

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 09:00:01PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> I believe this is why copystr(), although safer than strlcpy(), isn't used much:
> the length returned in a pointer is unusual.

Isn't it used (nowadays) only in ~ a single place where it needs to be
congruent with copyinstr? And it could be totaly removed quite easily?

Martin

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