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Luyt on March 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gain control of a Linux System via an USB-Device d...

or sizeof(dst), and not forgetting dst[sizeof(dst)-1]='\0';

wladimir on March 8, 2011 [–]

That's why strlcpy is safer than strncpy, it makes sure that the destination string will always be zero-terminated.

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