[naturalmovement]

A reminder that we've had strlcpy[1] for ~ 30 years but it was never accepted into the Linux world because of typical petty open source bullshit. This is why we can't have nice things.

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/strlcpy

[ericbarrett]

The Linux kernel had strlcpy over 20 years ago. It was removed in favor of strscpy because the latter was judged a better interface. Here's a 2022 article: https://lwn.net/Articles/905777/

[BoingBoomTschak]

Actually, glibc 2.38 has it.

[naturalmovement]

Wow it only took them 26 years to import a 30 line C function, a third of which is comments?

I should have sent them a nice fruit basket to commemorate the occasion.