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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by fwsgonzo on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:50AM (#20800323)
I don't think strncpy is the function you are looking for, either. Its for zeroing fixed-size character buffers. And it doesn't indicate problems.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/strncpy/

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