Scoping question in C

Kevin Cozens kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 13 19:29:18 UTC 2005


James Zhou wrote:

>Plus, strncpy() will not write '\0' at the end.
>  
>
It won't guarantee a NUL at the end of the output from the copying by 
putting one in your output buffer. The copied string may or may not be 
NUL terminated depending on the length of the original string to be 
copied vs. the number of bytes you want to copy.

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