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From: mikes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Shannon)
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Subject: Re: Need strnlen().
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 12:42:03 EST
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Stephen Muir in the cited article:
> I think that there should be a function called "strnlen" as follows:
> 
> int strnlen (string, size)
> 	char	*string;
> 	int	size;
> 
> where "size" is the maximum number of bytes in "string".
> 
> The reason is that, if a character array is passed as argument, and it is not
> terminated with a null byte, then "strlen" will keep going, possibly hitting
> an unallocated piece of memory.

	Then write one!  Geez!!
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			Michael Shannon {ihnp4,hplabs}!oliveb!3comvax!mikes