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alcover on March 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git's list of banned C functions

Agreed. It's O(n) inefficient. I guess looping though chars up to `size` would perform better on average.

I see this `strlcpy` recommanded everywhere.

attractivechaos on March 4, 2021 [–]

A few days ago people here were discussing the quadratic sscanf() behavior. strlcpy() has the same problem.

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