6 Sep
2020
6 Sep
'20
9:57 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:58:35AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:58 PM Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com wrote:
[...] +/**
- stpcpy - copy a string from src to dest returning a pointer to the new end
of dest, including src's %NUL-terminator. May overrun dest.
- @dest: pointer to end of string being copied into. Must be large enough
to receive copy.
- @src: pointer to the beginning of string being copied from. Must not overlap
dest.
- stpcpy differs from strcpy in a key way: the return value is the new
- %NUL-terminated character. (for strcpy, the return value is a pointer to
- src.
return a pointer to src?
"man 3 strcpy" says:
The strcpy() and strncpy() functions return a pointer to the destination string *dest*.
Agreed; that's a typo.
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Kees Cook