strncpy

[Michael T. Sullivan]

>From article <11509 at csli.Stanford.EDU>, by poser at 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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