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Re: [PATCH] Kill strcpy and strcat


From: Ian Collier
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kill strcpy and strcat
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:42:54 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12)

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:26:40PM +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:
> Maybe somebody could tell me if there is a difference between:
> snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", some_string);
> and
> strncpy(buf, some_string, sizeof(buf));
> buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = 0;

strncpy always fills the whole buffer (it pads shorter strings with
nul bytes) and so is potentially slightly slower, although of course
snprintf has the overhead of interpreting the format string.

imc




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