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by pjmlp 3549 days ago
The CVE database shows how easy it is to use correctly, bah.
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Warts like no guaranteed NUL termination for strncpy and strncat if the buffer length is reached are especially fun to contend with in code reviews.

As is *cat being O(N) with respect to destination length.

So easy that there's been constant flamewars over nonstandard alternatives such as strlcpy, strcpy_s... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940368