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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: strncat is insufficient
Message-ID: <13537@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Aug 90 18:40:02 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <2201@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@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.