[brussels-dev] code review: several bug fixes

[Artem Kachitchkine]

>   http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sowmini/arcfixes/

mac.c:

  940         cp = (char *)tmp->b_wptr;
  941         *cp++ = '\0';
  942         tmp->b_wptr = (uchar_t *)cp;

Or just:

	*tmp->b_wptr++ = '\0';

So, for my education, what's the background on non nul-terminated 
strings in so much of networking code (and the need for precautions like 
strn*)? I understand when a property value is untyped, i.e. just an 
array of bytes. But stuff like names (link names, property names, etc) 
are strings by definition, it should be easy to guarantee their 
nul-terminatedness. Is this historical?

-Artem