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Re: [review] manual: Clarify strnlen, wcsnlen, strndup null termination behavior

On Okt 30 2019, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> It says that accesses beyond maxlen are forbidden, but it *doesn't*
> say that accesses beyond the first NUL are forbidden; therefore they
> are allowed.

Neither does it say that about strncpy or strncat.

Andreas.

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