24 Jan
2013
24 Jan
'13
6:37 a.m.
I don't know about strncpy but strcmp appears (not under that name but
with identical functionality) in speak.c from 1973ish...
On 1/22/2013 11:03 PM, Nevin Liber wrote:
On another list I am on, a discussion about the
history and purpose of
strncpy has arisen. The only reference I have found to it is
<http://lwn.net/Articles/507432/>:
The original reason for strncpy() was when directory names were
limited to 14 chars. The other two bytes contained the inode number.
For that particular case, strncpy() worked quite well.
Is that really the reason it came into being?
Just a bit curious,
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