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>> Then strncpy() will happily 0-fill all of that buffer space Yes. And that feels like a really poor choice of the function name in my opinion. It should have

>> Then strncpy() will happily 0-fill all of that buffer space Yes. And that feels like a really poor choice of the function name in my opinion. It should have been strcpy_pad_with_zeros() rather than strncpy(). To reflect the fact that it is going to waste precious cache lines and memory writes.

makomk 14y ago
It probably made sense in an era when typing was slow and fixed-length records padded with zeroes were common.
- dibbit 14y ago
  It made sense when portability from C to C++ was important, as in now and for as long as both languages have constancy.