alt Hacker NewsA reminder that we've had strlcpy[1] for ~ 30 years but it was never accepted into the Linux world because of typical petty open source bullshit. This is why we can't have nice things.
A reminder that we've had strlcpy[1] for ~ 30 years but it was never accepted into the Linux world because of typical petty open source bullshit. This is why we can't have nice things.
The Linux kernel had strlcpy over 20 years ago. It was removed in favor of strscpy because the latter was judged a better interface. Here's a 2022 article: https://lwn.net/Articles/905777/