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A comment on Git's list of banned C functions. Parent comment

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:05AM (#26357575)
If it respects null terminator, then it is a string function.
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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by slrz on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:03AM (#26366860)
It basically expects a string as the source and a fixed-size, not necessarily zero-terminated, buffer as the destination.
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