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A comment on Git's list of banned C functions. Parent comment

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by tedunangst on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:49PM (#26348900)
It is for fixed length records, which is why it also zeroes the remaining space.
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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by ironmagma on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:04PM (#26349081)
Arguably naming it with β€œstr” is itself a security vulnerability.
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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by tedunangst on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:07PM (#26349114)
No argument. At best it is a "string to fixed record" function, hence the name, but it is not a string function.
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