Re: [PATCH] Kill strcpy and strcat

[Ian Collier]

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