Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:
> > strdup'ing perl strings is bad karma in general (they can contain
> > NULs), although it's no problem in this case.
>
> That's why there is strndup(3).
strndup("abc\0def", 99) will only malloc & copy 4 bytes. Only malloc +
memcpy is appropriate for "strings" that may contain NUL.
But that's largely OT by now.
--
Robbe
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