[Asterisk-Dev] [RFC] strncpy -> ast_copy_string

[Ledion B]

> >n will _always_ be greater than strlen(src), at
least
> >99.99% of the cases. We are copying strings into 
> >fixed-size buffers that always have enough room.
> 
> I was worrying about this being the case. So I did a
> real quick scan through the *'s code and yes indeed
> that is the case, that most of the time strncpy is
> called with the size of the destination buffer. 

>That is the whole purpose of the third argument to
>strncpy() !!!

What about copying substrings? I thought this was the
most used case, I can be wrong too. But what the heck,
you can do both, even better :-}

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