Re: [Freeciv-Dev] patch: zstrncpy() (PR#112)

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, David Pfitzner wrote:

> >  * zstrncpy():
> >  *
> >  * Like strncpy(), but with some features to make it easier to
> >  * keep strings null-terminated.  In particular, always writes
> >  * a terminating null, including when input is longer than n.
> 
> Have you seen strlcpy and strlcat?

Thanks, strlcpy looks like just what I was wanting.  :-)

(The only real difference looks like they made a slightly 
different decision on the return value if src is too long.)

-- David