No strcpy either.
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no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes.daniel.haxx.se
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> “I’m a Lisp hacker, so I know a great deal about linked lists; the C language string interface is effectively an unnecessary interface mimicking that for linked lists”
Yeah uhh, first that makes no sense, second having worked with Erlang I can tell you linked lists are a terrible way to represent strings, so bad that C arguably does it better