From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:58:03 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] History of strncpy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A quick search of the archive shows that it appears, with strcpy, in v7, which suggests that this isn't the only reason... Warner On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:03 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