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		ajanuary on July 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: strcpy: A niche function you don't need I don’t think that’s an accurate summary. “Use memcpy() instead. Use strncpy() in limited circumstances.”

icedchai on July 30, 2021 [–]

Doesn't memcpy have the same issue as strncpy? the destination will not be null terminated if the source is too long.

Many projects just implement a safe_strncpy wrapper that always terminates the destination. Example: https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/master/libbb/safe_strnc...

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