[TUHS] History of strncpy

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:46:51PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Ronald Natalie scripsit:
> > Why on earth did they preserve the silly fread/fwrite size feature
> > that just multiplies the two middle args together long after it was
> > realized that portability doesn't demand making such a distinction.
> 
> I like the idea: essentially it's about reading or writing an array
> of a specified type.

As a SPARC guy (in the past), I think it may have had something to do 
about alignment.

That said, I hate the fread/fwrite interfaces.  We're fixing them in 
our stdio.  freadn(f, buf, n).
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