NULL as a string terminator (was Re: Get process name... )

[Gary Duzan]

In article <707 at mtune.ATT.COM> jrw at mtune.ATT.COM (Jim Webb) writes:
=>
=>	char psbuf[64];
=>	char command[15];
=>	FILE *ps;
=>	
=>	/* I'm sure this could be done better in perl :-) */
=>	sprintf(psbuf,"ps -p%d|awk '{/PID/ {next} { print $4 }'",getpid());
=>	ps=popen(psbuf,"r");
=>	fgets(command,15,ps);
=>	pclose(ps);
=>	command[strlen(command)-1]=NULL; /* chop off the \n */
                                   ^^^^
   Pardon me for reopening the NULL discussion, but won't this give a warning
if NULL is #defined (void *) 0? If it doesn't, should it? Assigning a pointer
to a char is certainly a questionable thing to do.

                                        Gary Duzan
                                        Time  Lord
                                    Third Regeneration



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