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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] EDAC/mc: Prefer strscpy over strcpy
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On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 19:54 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> So it would be a lot more robust if something would catch that change,
> albeit seemingly redundant now.

I still think scnprintf is _way_ more common and intelligible as
a construct than this odd strscpy with required error checking.