[TUHS] History of strncpy

[Steve Nickolas]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Larry McVoy wrote:

> 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).
>

That syntax makes sense.  Though you'd prolly need a "#define 
fread(b,s,n,f) freadn(f,b,((s)*(n)))", right?  For backward compatibility.