strncpy

[Peter da Silva]

> That's why it is a bastard function - it is designed to work with
> the null-termination convention but does not guarantee closure.

What it does is provide the most generally useful facility. If it always
null-terminated, it couldn't be used for copies into a known fix-sized
buffer. And since you know the length, you can always null-terminate
the string yourself.
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