RE: New Microsoft Security Tool for developers

[Örjan Petersson <nospam () logcode com>]

> > I cannot find supporting documentation for the claim "and nullify
the
> > rest of the buffer of dest". IIRC, strncpy will copy a null byte
from
> > src to dst, but it does not nullify the rest of dst.
>
> Hey Crispin,
>
> This would be dependant on the implimentation of strncpy. For most
> implementations on Unix it will indeed copy null chars in the rest of
the
> buffer up the size requested.

The C standard requires this behaviour so implementations that do
not pad the destination string with nul characters are not conformant.
-- 
Örjan Petersson, Logcode SARL
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