Re: Off-by-one question

[Joshua Rogers <oss () internot info>]

On 23/11/14 03:47, Stuart Gathman wrote:
> >
> The snippet will print Fou.  The contract for strncpy is:
>
>        The strncpy() function is similar, except that at most n bytes 
> of  src
>        are  copied.  Warning: If there is no null byte among the first
> n bytes
>        of src, the string placed in dest will not be null terminated.
>
> So you are correct.  Unless strncpy is broken.
That's what I thought.

I wonder why MITRE says otherwise.

Thanks Stuart and Simon.
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