On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:29:09AM +0100, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > I hope strcpy() does not belong to this class. It's quite common to do > something like this: > > int len = strlen(s); > char *new = (char *) malloc(len + 1); > strcpy(new, s); > > This is perfectly fine. Albeit silly; you mean strdup() > strncpy() is even more dangerous, since it doesn't add a final nul-byte if > strlen(src) > n. Most people are not aware of this problem. So, most of > the time you use strncpy() you should use a construction like this: > > strncpy(dst, src, len); > dst[len] = '\0'; Or use your own version of strncpy() which behaves more sensibly. This is my preference. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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