"Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu> writes:
> Seems it's a non-portable behavior:
Not at all. The code is asking strncpy to copy n bytes, where n is
known to be <= strlen of the source string. Every spec-conforming
implementation of strncpy will copy n bytes, no more, no less, and
will *not* add a trailing null after them. The only reason the code
appeared to work is that it was dealing with a static buffer that
starts out all zeroes, so the trailing null was already in place.
Until the buffer had been used for a longer OID, that is.
regards, tom lane
