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From: jbr0@cbnews.att.com (joseph.a.brownlee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Disinfectant 2.0 Sample Code
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.124746.22671@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 12:47:46 GMT
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In article <25571@cs.yale.edu> tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (michael tarr) writes:
>Think C 4.01 also has a bug in strncpy:
>
>char s1[10];
>char s2[20] = "A long string";
>
>strncpy(s1, s2, 8);
>
>s1 will not have a '\0' appended to the end. So far as I can tell this
>is not per the standard definition.

Wrong.  It should copy 8 characters from s2 to s1, period, which is exactly
what it does.  TC is correct.

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