strncpy

[Chris Straut]

In article <621 at buster.irby.com> rli at buster.irby.com (Buster Irby) writes:
>cns at stiatl.UUCP (Chris Straut) writes:
>
>>I agree that strncpy should null terminate the resulting string.  The 
>>definition of a string in the C language is a null terminated char array.
>>And the function called (str)ncpy indicates a string operation, which by
>>default should create a null terminated string.  To overcome this 'feature'
>>we wrote our own strncpy function, which is benefical to the unsuspecting
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>>programmer (or novice), and the result is a null terminated string.
>
>CAUTION: There is a lot of existing software in the world that
>would break if the operation of strncpy or any other standard
>library function were suddenly changed. 
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We didn't call the new function strncpy.  Sorry if the text above was
misleading.  We have written a set of library functions to enhance the
C run-time library as well as increase its functionality.  We currently
do development on three different platforms, therefore the need for portable
library functions which can be maintained in-house.

We currently employ alot of CO-OP programmers, and many are not very
experienced in the C language.  The use of our libraries assist these CO-OPs
in overcoming these holes in the C run-time library naming convention.
We are currently putting together a developers guide for in-house use,
which will document the characteristics of the C libarary as well as
our own C functions which bring to the attention certain "features" of
the language run-time library.

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