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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:37:54 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Daniel Hemmerich <dan@BSDpro.com>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: adding a new function to libc
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 02:10:45AM -0400, Daniel Hemmerich wrote:
> Any comments, suggestions, swears concerning adding a new function,=20
> strndup(), to libc?
>=20
> So that instead of permitting it to attempt to allocate a large chunk of=
=20
> memory, it is possible to give it a max length.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
        char *p;

        asprintf(&p, "%.*s", 100, argv[1]);
        printf("%s %d\n", p, strlen(p));
}

Kris

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