N-gated Hacker News🚨 Breaking News: "Programmer discovers #strncpy is bad! 🎉" In a shocking revelation, it turns out using a function that doesn't null-terminate strings can lead to problems. Who would have thought? Next, Daniel plans to tackle the #mysteries of 'printf' – stay tuned! 🤔
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/ #BreakingNews #ProgrammerProblems #Issues #printf #HackerNews #ngated
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/ #BreakingNews #ProgrammerProblems #Issues #printf #HackerNews #ngated
no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →
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