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strlcpy and strlcat--Consistent, Safe, String Copy and Concatenation
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As the prevalence of buffer overflow attacks has increased, more and more programmers are using size or length-bounded string functions such as strncpy() and strncat(). While this is certainly an encouraging trend, the standard C string functions generally used were not really designed for the task. This paper describes an alternate, intuitive, and consistent API designed with safe string copies in mind.
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