strncpy

[Teruhiko Kurosaka - Sun Intercon]

In article <11616 at csli.Stanford.EDU> poser at csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
 |are semi-standard in C. That makes one wonder why strncpy is included
 |with functions that are intended for use with null-terminated strings,
 |and why there is no "safe" copying function for the latter.
I have no opinion about philosophical correctness of the current behavior of
strncpy() but always do:
	strncpy(to, from, n);
	to[n]=0; 
This ensures the copied string is always null-terminated, if this is what you 
mean by "safe".
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