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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:38:02 +0000 From: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@...com> To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> CC: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>, "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: RE: [PATCH] scsi: scsi_devinfo.c: Cleaning up unnecessarily complicated in conjunction with strncpy > -----Original Message----- > From: Rickard Strandqvist [mailto:rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se] > How do you mean? > > strncpy zeroes throughout the remainder of the string "from" until the > length off to_length, or otherwise guaranteed trailing zero characters > and a warning is printed. > > Is not it exactly the functionality that is desired? Ah, I see that in man 3 strcpy: "If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() pads the remainder of dest with null bytes." I agree that should work. --- Rob Elliott HP Server Storage
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