[TUHS] History of strncpy

[Warner Losh]

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 <http://lwn.net/Articles/507432/>:
> 
> 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,
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