strncat is insufficient

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Mon Aug 13 04:40:02 AEST 1990


In article <2201 at cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I think the standard C library badly needs another function called,
>say, strlimcat(), which limits the length of the destination string to
>some value.

Feel free to implement one of these for your own applications.
There isn't much point in discussing it in this newsgroup.
We're not soliciting suggestions for changes to the standard.



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