From: Kjetil Oftedal <oftedal@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 20:38:57 +0200
> Just a note from the strncpy manpage:
> "If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() writes additional null
> bytes to dest to ensure that a total of n bytes are written."
>
> So strncpy always writes len bytes, regardless of the presence of a null char.
> (Unless silo strncpy is different ?)
Let's take a look.
SILO's doesn't behave that way, it stops at the first NULL character.
char * strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count)
{
char *tmp = dest;
while (count-- && (*dest++ = *src++) != '\0')
/* nothing */;
return tmp;
}
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