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nathell on Jan 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Printable True Bugs Wait Posters

For C: strncpy(), strncat(), snprintf() (or the non-standard asprintf()), and fgets(), respectively. I believe pickle is a Python thing.

sdfjkl on Jan 31, 2014 | [–]

The sa[fn]e alternative to pickling your objects is to write your data into a well defined file format and read it back with stringent input checks.

rainforest on Jan 31, 2014 | [–]

It's worth noting that strncpy doesn't always null-terminate strings (on some platforms), so strlcpy is preferable.

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