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In the DESCRIPTION, put the more commonly used functions first in the corresponding sentence, to help catch the eye. Pull out the note about overlapping buffers to its own paragraph, as it applies to all routines documented by this page. Emphasize the potentially surprising strncpy(3) behavior of zero-filling the remainder of a buffer larger than the source string. Encourage strlcpy use; remove portability note about strlcpy(3). Adapting a strlcpy-using code base to a platform that does not provide strlcpy in libc is so trivial as to not be worth mentioning. (Just copy strlcpy.c out of any BSD libc, or include and link the pre-packaged libbsd library on non-BSD platforms.) Likewise, expand the page's warning about ease of potential misuse to cover all functions documented herein, and explicitly suggest using strlcpy most of the time. The text was mostly cribbed from a similar suggestion in gets(3). Finally, document the remaining valid use of strncpy -- the rare fixed-length record with no expectation of nul-termination. Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
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