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I've mentioned elsewhere that strncpy is not a "safer" strcpy.

Even if it were, there's safety and there's safety. A function (like strncat, for example) that quietly truncates your data if it's too long isn't necessarily better than one that quietly ignores array overruns. Consider what happens if "rm -rf $HOME/tmpdir" is quietly truncated to "rm -rf $HOME/"