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Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness by nneonneo on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:03AM (#35478216)
I mean, you could but a lot of people do not. Plus, strncpy is terribly inefficient if the source string is tiny, because it’ll fill the rest of the buffer with NULs.
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Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness by myrmidon on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:09PM (#35485713)
One mans inefficiency is another mans resistance to timing attacks :P

(this is tongue-in-cheek, the function is still bad IMO because it almost never does what you need it to. If it guaranteed null termination it would be more useful)

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