Re: Implement C11 annex K?

[Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>]

David A. Wheeler wrote:
> if you are *handed* a block of memory to use (with its length),
> or if dynamic allocation is forbidden

That example reponded to Russ Allbery, who asked for dynamic allocation. 
 Other techniques should be used for fixed-size buffers.  For reasons 
that should be obvious I don't recommend the technique of silent 
truncation; but applications that require it can use snprintf, which is 
more portable and useful than strlcpy anyway.

> Don't tell me "write it perfectly", that's been failing for 4 decades+ now.

That's a false choice.  It's not strlcpy versus "write it perfectly". 
It's strlcpy versus other available approaches.  And the little 
empirical evidence that we have suggests that strlcpy is worse.