Re: [PATCH 2/2] banned.h: mark strncpy as banned

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 19, 2018, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20180719213300.GC13151@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87y3e7aq0e.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:12:49PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> 
> On Thu, Jul 19 2018, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > Since this use of strncpy was verified by manual inspection
> > and since it doesn't trigger the automated ban-list, we're
> > better off leaving it to keep our divergence from glibc
> > minimal.
> 
> FWIW it's s/glibc/gawk/. It's originally from glibc, but gawk
> perma-forked it long ago, and an ancient copy of thath is the one we
> use.

Thanks, I didn't know that. Not materially different, but it's worth correcting the commit message.

-Peff

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