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Encyclopedia: Strlcpy

The strlcpy function, developed by Todd C. Miller and Theo de Raadt for use in the C programming language, is intended to replace the function strcpy and provide a simpler and more robust interface than strncpy. It is designed to copy the contents of a string from a source string to a destination string.

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susceptible to buffer overflow because it only will copy a specified number of bytes. OpenBSD strlcpy is...

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occurrences of strcpy, strcat, sprintf, and vsprintf were replaced with bounded, safer variants like, strlcpy...

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