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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
Keywords: strncpy null termination
Message-ID: <1989Dec23.180250.22437@twwells.com>
Date: 23 Dec 89 18:02:50 GMT
References: <11509@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <11509@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
:       So I claim that strncpy is mis-designed and should
: null-terminate. Any comments?

Who cares? I claim that having an appendix makes a human
mis-designed and that we should not have one. That won't change a
thing.

Strncpy is what it is. If you want a new function, create it.

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