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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) 
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:47:03 CST, Brett Glass wrote:

> How about returning the shortfall as the return value of the function?

Um, hello? That's exactly what I'm proposing:

> >RETURN VALUES
> >
> >If the optional shortfall argument is passed non-zero, the functions
> >return the number of characters from src that are missing in dst after
> >the operation. Otherwise, they return the length of dst. In either case,
> >the return value does not include the NUL terminator.

:-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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