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From: mash@whuxlb.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy()
Message-ID: <1283@whuxlb.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 08:05:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 08:05:17 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Aug-83 10:20:06 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany
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strcpyn() (before it was renamed strncpy(), was originally
written specifically t odeal with directories, accouting records,
and various other places in UNIX that expect fixed-length fields
containing varaible length strings padded with nulls.
There used to be numerous instances of slightly different code to
do the strncpy/strncmp functions in-line.
-mashey