* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> * Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I want to say two things:
> >
> > 1) strlcpy race
> >
> > > * In addition, the implementation is robust to the string changing out
> > > * from underneath it, unlike the current strlcpy() implementation.
> >
> > Canonical OpenBSD version does byte-by-byte copying,
> > this race is purely Linux invention.
> >
> > 2) strscpy() will copy garbage past NUL from source into destination.
> > It won't fault but still, who knows what lies after string.
>
> So I think your argument is nonsense on several levels:
Oh, you are right strscpy() - I mis-read your mail.
So the argument that is nonsensical here is mine!
Thanks,
Ingo
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