Re: [PATCH] Kill strcpy and strcat

[Philip Kendall]

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;

There's the obvious difference that if strlen(some_string) <
sizeof(buf) - 1 then the snprintf() version won't set
buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] to zero, but I can't see how this makes any
difference in any real world use.

strncpy() is presuambly more efficient as well.

Cheers,

Phil

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