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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) 
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> but what about
> 
> While ( more data items)
> {
>   copy data items onto end of buffer
>   if full{
>      write out buffer
>      clear buffer, copy in rest of last item.
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> I'd certainly not want to use xxprintf() for that

This is what stdio does, funnily enough.  See fwrite() etc.

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