[asgfoi]

That's nothing, you should see the sad sad state of strings in assembly... Oh you're supposed to manage them yourself? Huh, what a concept.

Seriously though, a C programmer should know the downsides of C strings, and act accordingly, i.e. use a library if necessary.

[hyc_symas]

"should" - yes. "does" - apparently not. "use a library if necessary" - that's really the point of this - the standard library's offerings suck. What is the point of a standard that is actually unusable?

strlcpy() also sucks. The solutions I proposed solve both the overflow protection aspect that strlcpy aims to solve and solves the inefficiency problems of strcpy/strcat/memcpy.