On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The strcpy() function is considered dangerous and eeeevil by people
> who are using sophisticated code analysis tools such as "grep". This
> is true even when a quick inspection would show that the source is a
> constant string ("." or "..") and the destination is a fixed array
> which is guaranteed to have enough space. Make the "grep" code
> analysis tool happy by using memcpy() isstead of strcpy(). :-)
Why simple 2-arg strscpy() can't be used?
...
> - strcpy(fake.name, ".");
> + memcpy(fake.name, ".", 2);
s/strcpy/strscpy/
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
