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

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:57:57 +1100, Andrew Dalgleish <secprog@andrewdalgleish.dyndns.org> said:

> No, it would not. strncpy does NOT append the trailing 0 if the

This has left teeth marks on the posterior of more than one programmer, when they manage to copy in exactly the number of bytes, forget to force a null in there, and the program then proceeds to waltz off to never-never land. I've seen one pathological case where the next zero byte in memory was somewhere over a megabyte away, which lead to one *amazing* stack-smash when it tried to use the purported result string.....

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech