Joerg Schilling wrote:
> It would be interesting to know how this interface change could make it into 
> POSIX as the intention of the POSIX standard is not to invalidate existing
> interfaces.....

Was there ever a formal definition guaranteeing strcpy() worked for overlapping
strings or was that just an accident of the common implementation?   The 1989 C
standard says it was undefined, and POSIX would build on that, not override it.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           [email protected]
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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