Re: [PATCH 4/5] strcpy.3: tfix
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-13 07:25:46
Applied! On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:34 AM, David Prévot [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk
--- man3/strcpy.3 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/man3/strcpy.3 b/man3/strcpy.3 index 0a222dd..0664335 100644 --- a/man3/strcpy.3 +++ b/man3/strcpy.3@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ One valid (and intended) use of is to copy a C string to a fixed-length buffer while ensuring both that the buffer is not overflowed and that unused bytes in the target buffer are zeroed out -(perhaps to prevent information leaks if the buffer is to +(perhaps to prevent information leaks if the buffer is to be written to media or transmitted to another process via an interprocess communication technique). --1.7.10.4
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