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

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2018, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID: <87y3e7aq0e.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180719203934.GB8079@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.

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