[eq-]

It depends. It's not like there's no safe way of using strcpy and sprintf.

[pconner]

The safe way to use strcpy is to use strncpy

[abadcafe]

no，strncpy is worse than strcpy，the right way is strlcpy.

[gandalf013]

http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/strncpy.html