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Top Forums Programming Reg: strncpy function Post 302092211 by matrixmadhan on Saturday 7th of October 2006 06:47:51 AM
Old 10-07-2006
as jim said,

its good that the variable should be given to memset,
char array blocks should be initialized.

without memset and just with a string delimiter '\0',
you end up in possible garbage retention for the char array.
 

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MEMSET(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 MEMSET(3)

NAME
memset - fill memory with a constant byte SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The memset() function fills the first n bytes of the memory area pointed to by s with the constant byte c. RETURN VALUE
The memset() function returns a pointer to the memory area s. ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). +----------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +----------+---------------+---------+ |memset() | Thread safety | MT-Safe | +----------+---------------+---------+ CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD. SEE ALSO
bstring(3), bzero(3), swab(3), wmemset(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
2017-03-13 MEMSET(3)
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