netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/rds: using strlcpy instead of strncpy

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Date:	Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:09:17 +0800
From:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	venkat.x.venkatsubra@...cle.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/rds: using strlcpy instead of strncpy

于 2013年03月05日 11:37, Ben Hutchings 写道:
>>   I think what I have done is just like your choice "2."
>> >   for me, I think they are equal:
>> > 
>> > -		strncpy(ctr.name, names[i], sizeof(ctr.name) - 1);
>> > +		strlcpy(ctr.name, names[i], sizeof(ctr.name));
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 		strncpy(ctr.name, names[i], sizeof(ctr.name) - 1);
>> > + 		ctr.name[sizeof(ctr.name) - 1] = '\0';
> They are not.  strncpy() pads with zeroes to the end of the given buffer
> whereas strlcpy() adds only a single zero byte (and truncates if
> necessary to fit the zero byte).

  ok, thank you. they are really not the same (originally, I did not
notice it)

  could you supply the reason:
    why need we zero all of ctr.name ?
    (for me, I think, keeping ctr.name just a zero-based string is ok)

  thanks.

  :-)

-- 
Chen Gang

Asianux Corporation
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