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In article <BzMGp3.Hwr@math.uwaterloo.ca> rbutterw@math.uwaterloo.ca (Ray Butterworth [MFCF]) writes:
>As an aside, does anyone ever actually use strncat?
>If the "N" were the total length of the data including what is already
>in the string, it might be useful.

Remember, a language with gets() and other such niceties is intended for
hacking, not for security.  The "N" is intended to bring over a known portion
of the source string, not to protect other stuff near the target.  Now this
raises the question of why memcpy() was invented, and I don't know the answer.

On a more serious note, people actually do use gets().  I'd worry about this
kind of dangerous stuff long before caring about silly things like strncat().
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