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		eq- on July 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nope.c – A web framework with a tiny footprint It depends. It's not like there's no safe way of using strcpy and sprintf.

pconner on July 25, 2014 [–]

The safe way to use strcpy is to use strncpy

abadcafe on July 25, 2014 | | [–]

no，strncpy is worse than strcpy，the right way is strlcpy.

gandalf013 on July 25, 2014 | | [–]

http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/strncpy.html

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