strncpy

[John S. Price]

In article <11882 at csli.Stanford.EDU> poser at csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) writes:
>...[stuff deleted]...
>So, what strncpy does is to COPY up to the null byte or N characters,
>whichever comes first, and then null-pad out to the N character limit.

This is exactly right.  Strncpy copys exactly N characters from
source to destination.  If N > strlen(source) then strncpy
cannot assume that the bytes after the NULL in source are
part of the string.  The manuals aren't ambiguous if you
take into consideration the definition of a string.


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