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		sillywalk on July 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strlcpy and strlcat added to glibc 2.38 -edit- I'm not a C programmer, nor do I have any opinion on whether api is garbage or less worse or whatever. They seemed useful enough to get added to the other BSDs, Solaris, Mac OS X, Irix(!), QNX, and Cygwin as well as used in the Linux kernel.

sanxiyn on July 18, 2023 | [–]

Distributing clean needles is useful, yes, but you should still lament why it is necessary.

saagarjha on July 18, 2023 | [–]

The Linux kernel has better options, notably strscpy.

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