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manwe150yesterday at 6:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

strlcpy is a BSD-ism that isn't in posix. The official recommendation is stpecpy. Unfortunately, it is only implemented in the documentation, but not available anywhere unless you roll your own:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/string_copying.7.html


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bentleyyesterday at 7:30 PM

strlcpy is in POSIX now, actually.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/s...

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tptacekyesterday at 7:23 PM

Who cares? Just vendor it into your project. It's a tiny string manipulation function.

(I agree with the author of the piece that strlcpy doesn't actually solve the real problem.)