Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: add sane strncpy alternative and use it internally

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Hello:

This patch was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:40:43 -0800 you wrote:
> strncpy() has a notoriously error-prone semantics which makes GCC
> complain about it a lot (and quite often completely completely falsely
> at that). Instead of pleasing GCC all the time (-Wno-stringop-truncation
> is unfortunately only supported by GCC, so it's a bit too messy to just
> enable it in Makefile), add libbpf-internal libbpf_strlcpy() helper
> which follows what FreeBSD's strlcpy() does and what most people would
> expect from strncpy(): copies up to N-1 first bytes from source string
> into destination string and ensures zero-termination afterwards.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [bpf-next] libbpf: add sane strncpy alternative and use it internally
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/9fc205b413b3

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