[PATCH v7] Implement strlcpy, strlcat [BZ #178]

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/05/2016 03:09 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> For example, I don't expect
>
>    read (fd, ptr, SSIZE_MAX)
>
> to succeed as long as the actual number of bytes read is sufficiently
> small (and it fails with EFAULT on Linux).

I agree with your expectation. Any program playing that sort of game is 
a security problem waiting to happen, and GNU/Linux is doing the right 
thing here.