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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Ranier Vilela <[email protected]>
Cc: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Avoid incomplete copy string (src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:53:52 +0900
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 09:34:45PM -0300, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> It's not critical code, so I think it's ok to use strlen, even because the
> result of strlen will already be available using modern compilers.
> 
> So, I think it's ok to use memcpy with strlen + 1.

It seems to me that there is a pretty good argument to just use
strlcpy() for the same reason as the one you cite: this is not a
performance-critical code, and that's just safer.
--
Michael


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