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

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:20 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> 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.

I don't see why that would change anything.

zw
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