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From: fredb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Fred Buechler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
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Date: 22 Dec 89 14:59:45 GMT
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From article <11509@csli.Stanford.EDU>, by poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser):
> 
> ... I claim that strncpy is mis-designed and should
> null-terminate. Any comments?
> 
>
I have found strncpy to be useful when working in mixed language environments
where the other languages don't use null terminated strings, particularly to
write shared data structures.

Fred.