Hi Stefan, On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 12:40:48PM +0200, Stefan Puiu wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 9:33 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [.....] > > strncpy(3): > > CAVEATS > > The name of these functions is confusing. These functions produce a > > null‐padded character sequence, not a string (see string_copying(7)). > > I'm a bit confused by this distinction. Isn't a null-padded sequence > technically also null-terminated? If there's a '0' at the end, then > it's a string, in my understanding. Or was the intention to say "a > character sequence that may be null-padded", where the case in which > there's no padding at all being the reason for the distinction? The latter. I'll check the wording. Thanks! Alex > > Thanks, > Stefan. -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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