[Sussex] Re: C programming help - again!
Thomas Adam
thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org
Tue May 10 18:05:00 UTC 2005
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:52:14PM +0100, Captain Redbeard wrote:
> OK, got it on the error. I've fixed it with the strcpy() function at
> it runs as expected. Now I've got the exciting job of re stripping
That would be """fixed""" as opposed to just 'Fixed' -- strncpy() is the
function you should use -- it's much better than the much older
stncpy(), doesn't allow for buffer-overflows on non-terminated strings
as easily, and whatnot.
-- Thomas Adam
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