Re: Are bad developer libraries the problem with M$ software?

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 17:10, Andrew Griffiths wrote:

> Another thing to use is consistency, for example,

If sizeof(dst) is 50, then a 0 terminated string is is 49 chars long (len(dst) is 49). That means we've got 50-49-1 = 0 which is correct as there is no room left in dst.

Of course in your example you allow dst to overflow in the strncpy. Using
  strncpy(dst, user_supplied_data, sizeof(dst)-1); would have prevented that if my math is correct.

Frank

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