Re: strncpy() and NULL termination

From: Robin Melville <robmel(at)nadt.org.uk>
Date: Mon Feb 17 1997 - 06:31:46 EST

At 19:27 16/02/97 -0500, you wrote:

>(strncpy(3) only returns NULL or a valid pointer, but there is

No good if buf wasn't zeroised... the '\0' might be further back.

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Received on Mon Feb 17 03:56:11 1997