Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] index-helper: convert strncpy to memcpy

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:30:54 -0400

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 00:02 +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> see commit eddda371 ("convert strncpy to memcpy", 24-09-2015).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  index-helper.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/index-helper.c b/index-helper.c
> index 4a8e2ae..00f286a 100644
> --- a/index-helper.c
> +++ b/index-helper.c
> @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static int setup_socket(const char *socket_path)
>  		return -1;
>  
>  	address.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
> -	strncpy(address.sun_path, socket_path,
> sizeof(address.sun_path));
> +	memcpy(address.sun_path, socket_path, len+1); /* include
> '\0' */
>  
>  	if (bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &address, sizeof(address)))
>  		die_errno(_("failed to bind to socket %s"),
> socket_path);

Thanks. 

I'm actually going to drop this patch because I'm switching to the unix
-socket.c helpers, so the affected code no longer exists.  But I
appreciate the thought anyway.