Timeline for What was the original purpose of C strncpy() function?
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| Apr 13, 2022 at 11:40 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @hyde: though this answer misses that C came more from the Unix world, according to Raymond Chen's blog post from 2005, it may not be completely off-track, since in certain old Unix implementations there were similar file name restrictions, and strncpy seems to be a suitable string copy function for them. | |
| Apr 13, 2022 at 7:05 | comment | added | hyde | Related to your mprintf, there's also non-standard (also not POSIX) GNU asprintf: man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/asprintf.3.html | |
| Apr 13, 2022 at 6:59 | comment | added | hyde | Thanks for the answer, but I'm after facts as an answer, not speculation and guesses. | |
| Apr 12, 2022 at 22:23 | history | answered | gnasher729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |