Michael Wojcik writes:
> Some C experts have argued that the length-checking versions of the library > functions, either the C90 ones such as strncat or the Appendix K ones, are > essentially pointless anyway; that the caller needs to handle truncation and > so ought to know whether truncation (or overflow) would occur before > attempting the operation. Isn't this normally/easilly handled simply by passing sizeof( buffer ) - 1? Then the last byte is always \0 whether or not the copy was truncated.
