[Info-vax] C str calls

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-08-22, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> Where available, the BSD-derived strl string calls can be preferable to 
> the str calls and even to the strn calls, as the strl string calls are 
> intended to avoid various common buffer overruns.
>

To make that more clear, the problem with strncpy() is that the result
may not be null terminated. This was a _really_ stupid design decision
for something that was supposed to be safer than strcpy().

strncpy() only stops you from walking off into never-never land while
processing the source argument.

Simon.

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