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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
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Date: 23 Jan 90 11:04:16 GMT
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In article <11864@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.stanford.edu writes:
>Note also that strncpy does not copy "an exact number of characters".
>It copies up to N characters, stopping at the first null.

From the Xenix manual page for string(S):

char *strncpy(S1,S2,N)
...
strncpy copies exactly N characters, truncating or null-padding S2; the
target may not be null-terminated if the length of S2 is N or more.
...

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