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Subject: Re: sendmail ;o)
From: Daniel Jacobowitz (drowFALSE.ORG)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 23:57:04 CDT

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:54:01AM +0200, Slawek wrote:
> Well it's about the same like in finger - even "better" ;) .. snprintf does
> not null terminate :)

So, I've been guilty of this a time or two myself, so I felt I should
correct this. snprintf() in most cases DOES null terminate - there are
probably some platforms where it does not, but it usually does.

You may be thinking of strncpy(), which does not.

Dan

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