strcpy_s, strlcpy, and strncpy and checking for overflow

[Ulrich Drepper]

Yuhong Bao wrote:
> Regardless it is not part of a standard yet, so it may not be a good 
> idea to add it to glibc.

No, it's not.  If you're concerned about overflows use the functions 
which do all this by themselves.  Read

   http://people.redhat.com/drepper/defprogramming.pdf

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