strncpy

[T. William Wells]

In article <KURO.90Jan6014431 at vodka.Sun.Com> kuro at Corp.Sun.Com writes:
: 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".

Maybe you meant "to[n - 1]=0;"?

If the size of to is n, to[n] = 0 is illegal.

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