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		ninkendo on July 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3) The late 70s was way too late for this… null terminated strings were already adopted by C and UNIX by then, and the rest is history.

eru on July 16, 2024 [–]

And sadly, we know that the C folks don't read papers; otherwise they wouldn't have come up with Go later.

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