From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jgevaryahu@hotmail.com (Jonathan Gevaryahu) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:37:51 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] History of strncpy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't know about strncpy but strcmp appears (not under that name but with identical functionality) in speak.c from 1973ish... On 1/22/2013 11:03 PM, Nevin Liber wrote: > On another list I am on, a discussion about the history and purpose of > strncpy has arisen. The only reference I have found to it is > : > > The original reason for strncpy() was when directory names were > limited to 14 chars. The other two bytes contained the inode number. > For that particular case, strncpy() worked quite well. > Is that really the reason it came into being? > > Just a bit curious, > -- > Nevin ":-)" Liber > (847) 691-1404 > > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- Jonathan Gevaryahu AKA Lord Nightmare jgevaryahu at gmail.com jgevaryahu at hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: