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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Todd C. Miller wrote:

:
:strlcpy() is generally faster since strncpy() does NUL fill and so
:will also write "len" bytes even when the source string is much
:smaller.

Ahh, very cool.  Thanks for the information.

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