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From: dcm@mimir.dmt.oz (Dennis Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Bug in library routine getenv()
Message-ID: <868@mimir.dmt.oz>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 00:38:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimir.868
Posted: Tue May  5 00:38:17 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 6-May-87 05:38:26 EDT
References: <3860@cae780.TEK.COM>
Organization: CSIRO Manufacturing Technology, Melbourne
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in article <3860@cae780.TEK.COM>, hubble@cae780.TEK.COM (Larry Hubble) says:
> 
> I believe there is also a bug in the
> library routine strncpy -- it doesn't null terminate the string if the string
> to copy is really longer that "n" characters.

This is the correct documented behaviour of 'strncpy'.

Dennis
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