In article <19991113105648.B9785@jocelyn.rhein.de>,
Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de> wrote:
>
>Our manual page promises that a truncated name will not be null-terminated.
>SUSV2 specifies that a truncated name may or may not be null-terminated.
>
>I would like to make sysctl null-terminating, for the sake of robustness
>(The error is reported anyway, and this way, the returned truncated string
>is ready-to-use if the caller decides to do so).

Although this is a convenience issue, I'd rather it be non-null-terminated
for robustness:
	- you lose one more byte of information
	- if the program does not check the error code, then it'll
	  probably get into trouble and the bug will be apparent,
	  instead of hidden.

christos