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Re: [PATCH] Use memmove instead of strcpy

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  Re: [PATCH] Use memmove instead of strcpy Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-07-09 09:52 -0400

#14300 — Re: [PATCH] Use memmove instead of strcpy

On 7/7/18 1:25 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
> In https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100488
> we found that depending on the build machine, bash-4.4's bash.html would contain the string Bahh instead of Bash
> 
> strcpy can cause corruption when working on overlapping strings
> so we use memmove instead that handles this case correctly

Thanks for the report.

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