On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:05 PM, bill o gallmeister <bgallmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I believe that's the correct result for a NULL-terminated string of length 1. And I agree. Thanks, Michael > On 06/21/2010 01:30 PM, Bob Eggers wrote: >> 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 >> > > > -- > Bill O. Gallmeister > bgallmeister@xxxxxxxxx > http://geekwhisperer.blogspot.com > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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
