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by hyc_symas 3788 days ago
"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.