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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.183242.13146@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 21 Dec 89 18:32:42 GMT
References: <11509@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: aQdata, Inc.  Western Region -- San Dimas, CA
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From article <11509@csli.Stanford.EDU>, by poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser):
> 
> 	Why is it that strncpy(3) does not null terminate
> the string if the length of the source string is greater than
> or equal to the length of the target buffer? I cannot think of

It's so you can do things like:

	strncpy(s1, s2, len)[len] = '\0';

and really freak people out! :-)
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Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
aQdata, Inc.
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