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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: How to copy a string safely and efficiently in C?
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 01:46:31 -0700
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mark.bluemel@gmail.com writes:
> On Monday, 5 September 2016 06:53:29 UTC+1, Keith Thompson  wrote:
[...]
>> (I'm resisting the temptation to repeat the warning that simple
> s/resisting/unsuccessfully resisting/
>> truncation isn't always the correct response to an overflow.)
>
> FTFY

Good point (but unsuccessful resistance is still resistance, futile
though it may be).

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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