strncpy bug?

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From: Christopher W. Curtis
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 04:09

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Hi.

I was wondering if this is a Linux thing (kernel 1.2.1) or a
more general 'problem'.  If you call strncpy as such:
	strncpy( dest, NULL, x );
it will seg fault.  Is this common among all platforms, or
just with Linux?

The man page says nothing about it, but I would have presumed
that if str[n]cpy were passed NULL as a source, it would
merely catenate the destination.  Did I presume wrong?

Thanks,
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Christopher Curtis, Sun SysAdmin - http://www.ee.fit.edu/users/ccurtis
Florida Institute of Technology  - telnet bofh.engr.wisc.edu 666
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