[Python-Dev] cpython: Use strncat() instead of strcat() to silence some warnings.

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Sat Jul 20 15:27:01 CEST 2013


> This will wrong when strlen(fname) is 30. strncat() will copy only 30
> bytes, without terminal NUL.

That's not how strncat() works. strncat(dest, src, n) writes n+1 chars
to the end of dest: n chars from src and +1 for the final NUL char. For
this reason dest must be large enough to hold strlen(dest) + n + 1 chars.




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