I noticed an error in and example on the man page for strncpy(). The page is http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/strncpy.3.html The error is in the section, "NOTES", specifically in the code example after the text: If there is no terminating null byte in the first n characters of src, strncpy() produces an unterminated string in dest. Programmers often prevent this mistake by forcing termination as follows: strncpy(buf, str, n); if (n > 0) buf[n - 1]= '\0'; Substituting 1 for n and "123" for str, this would equate to: strncpy(buf, "123", 1); // buf is now "1" if (1 > 0) buf[1 - 1]= '\0'; // buf is now "" Bob Eggers-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
