"aborting is correct: unexpected truncation is always a logic bug" How does a fu...

brohee on June 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian is switching back to GLIBC

"aborting is correct: unexpected truncation is always a logic bug"

How does a function knows what a programmer expects... A lot of use for those potentially truncating functions are for display purpose, where truncating is expected and not a logic bug...

A library function potentially exiting is mostly useless.

tankenmate on June 19, 2014 [–]

And as the GP said, for those cases that truncating is expected (or not a problem) then use strncpy_s.