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Re:The cost of forsaking C by MaulingMonkey on Thursday October 06, 2016 @11:59AM (#12653526)
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

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