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Re: strcat strncat and strlen

Subject: Re: strcat strncat and strlen
From: santosh
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:07:20 +0530
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

vippstar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Mar 31, 3:47 am, santosh <santosh....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> >         Strncat is supposed to be better than strcat for some
>> >         reason I've read.
>>
>> It does something different to what it's name would suggest. We have
>> had innumerable threads dealing with this topic. Just do a Google
>> search.
>>
>> > Is this because of a potential buffer overflow?
>>
>> Well, it can be used with that aim, in which case it leaves an array
>> of char instead of a string in the destination.
>>
>> > I have compiled properly and used strlen too and I just wonder what
>> > is the need to return a strlen?
>>
>> > Has anyone used quite abit anyway the strlen function?
>>
>> You are not making any sense. Are you asking why strlen exists? It
>> should be obvious, even to you. How else do you find the length of a
>> zero terminated string?
> 
> Can you or someone else please explain why everyone is still replying
> to this "Bill Cunningham' troll?
> It's clear he is a troll.

I was doubtful for a while, but I believe you are right. In any case,
even if he were not a troll, he seems to be unable to learn, so
replying to him seems increasingly pointless.

> It's been noted countless times and he 
> *never* replies to the posts that call him a troll.
> He always choses to take things out of context, to make
> uncomprehensible sentences and ambiguous statements.
> It's a troll. So.. why?

It was a case of "cutting him some slack" as Richard said. Bill has been
cut more slack than probably anyone else, but personally I'm done with
him.


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