Unless buffer is a char* instead of a char[] in which case its completely wrong. A very common case among buggy C code.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 7:09 AM Phillip Susi <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Wojcik writes:
> Some C experts have argued that the length-checking versions of the library functions, either the C90 ones such as strncat or the Appendix K ones, are essentially pointless anyway; that the caller needs to handle truncation and so ought to know whether truncation (or overflow) would occur before attempting the operation.
Isn't this normally/easilly handled simply by passing sizeof( buffer ) -
1? Then the last byte is always \0 whether or not the copy was truncated.
