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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/lib/libc/net ascii2addr.c
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>  Modified:    lib/libc/net  ascii2addr.c
>  Log:
>  Fix an embarassing and rather obscure incarnation of an uninitialized
>  local variable use.
>  
>  Found by:	actually using ascii2addr() :-/

This introduces an embarassing and rather obscure incarnation of an
uninitialized local variable use: now strbuf[15] is uninitialized.
strncpy(), unlike strncat(), does not null terminate the target string
if the source string together with its null terminator is longer than
the specified length.

Bruce