Hello Nikos,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nikos Vervelakis <vervelak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
> in the man page of strncpy is a simple implementation that dosn't work
> an error was found in the secont for loop.
> it must be "for ( ; i <= n ; i++) dest[i] = '\0';" insteed of "for ( ; i <
> n ; i++) dest[i] = '\0';"
> A simple implementation of strncpy() might be:
At a quick glance, I don't think this report is correct. Could you
please add more detail on a specific case where you think the
implementation is broken?
Thanks,
Michael
> char*
> strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n){
> size_t i;
>
> for (i = 0 ; i < n && src[i] != '\0' ; i++)
> dest[i] = src[i];
> ---> for ( ; i < n ; i++)
> dest[i] = '\0';
>
> return dest;
> }
>
> Thanks
> vervelak.
>
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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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