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After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy


Tech Times reports: Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that the kernel's own documentation labels "actively dangerous," from every subsystem, driv...

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