Re: pstrndup()

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:04:01AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Karel Zak wrote:
> >> The result of strndup() is always zero terminated. It's more safe and
> >> strndup() is binary safe because it doesn't check something in input
> >> string. The pstrndup() is based on PostgreSQL memory managment.
>
> > Can you find places to use this function our backend? Seems that should
> > be part of the patch.
>
> A bit of googling showed that strndup does appear in the "Linux
> standards base", but it is not to be found in the Single Unix Spec.
> That makes it at most quasi-standard IMHO.

man strndup

CONFORMING TO
SVID 3, BSD 4.3

> with strncpy). That's a lot of strikes for something that replaces only
> three lines of C ...

How often are bugs with "add '\0' to last item of array"?

Well, forget this patch...

Karel

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