[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Mark Daniel]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <ha6oek$gn9$02$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons schrieb:
>>
>>> Programmers are, some times, lazy. Specially when they work under 
>>> unrealistic schedules and not enough resources. 
>> I don't buy that. Errors of the kind below are not
>> due to lack of resources.
>>
>>> You can find a lot of 
>>> things like this in production:
>>>
>>> void someFunction(char *someString) {
>>>     char aBuffer[1024];
>>>     strcpy(aBuffer, someString);
> 
> strncpy!!

strncpy() may not overflow but then it does not terminate the copied 
chars when that happens either.  The whole null-termination approach is 
a crock (much as I use it).