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Re[2]: strcpy_s in Xcode?
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Re[2]: strcpy_s in Xcode?

  • Subject: Re[2]: strcpy_s in Xcode?
  • From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:31:45 +0100
Hello ygor,

Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 7:44:17 PM, you wrote:

> And I agree.  Such bells and whistles are unnecessary when you know how big a
> string you are manipulating.

The point is, there are plenty of overflow bug exploits caused by
*not* handling strings that are too long. Better for the program to
crash because some string is NULL, than for it to crash after potentially
corrupting other data, or even being tricked into running arbitrary code.

--
Best regards,
 Peter                            mailto:email@hidden

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