strncpy

[Chris Straut]

In article <11509 at csli.Stanford.EDU> poser at csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
>	Why is it that strncpy(3) does not null terminate
>the string if the length of the source string is greater than
>or equal to the length of the target buffer? 
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I agree that strncpy should null terminate the resulting string.  The 
definition of a string in the C language is a null terminated char array.
And the function called (str)ncpy indicates a string operation, which by
default should create a null terminated string.  To overcome this 'feature'
we wrote our own strncpy function, which is benefical to the unsuspecting
programmer (or novice), and the result is a null terminated string.
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