Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:34:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating man 9f Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970810132927.16737B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <199708101505.RAA12760@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > Not really realted, but it's always annoyed me that all the strcat and strcpy > functions are so ineffective. They return a pointer to the buffer you > supply to the function (which is useless since you have it already) and > not a pointer to the trailing NUL. So if you want to add two strings you The GNU C library includes stpcpy(3), which does what you describe above. I find sprintf() easier, but there is precedence for the extension you describe. :) Hehe. "This function is not part of the ANSI or POSIX standards, and is not customary on Unix systems, but we did not invent it either. Perhaps it comes from MS-DOG." - GNU C lib ref. manual -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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