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

[Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:26 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> On Okt 30 2019, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > Yes, that could be a defect in the specification of strncpy (I can
> > argue either way about what the parenthetical "(bytes that follow a
> > NUL character are not copied)" means).  How does text's presence or
> > absence in the specification of strncpy change anything about the
> > requirements on strnlen?
>
> Because it shows how flawed your argument is.

Are you seriously saying that I have to read the specification of
strncpy to understand the specification of strnlen?  That's not how I
was taught to read standards.

zw