"always use strncpy" I disagree; you should almost never use strncpy. Its name implies that it's a "safer" version of strcpy, but that's not what it is at all.

"always use strncpy" I disagree; you should almost never use strncpy. Its name implies that it's a "safer" version of strcpy, but that's not what it is at all. If the target array isn't big enough, it can easily end up not containing a null-terminated string. As it happens, I wrote about this a few years ago. http://the-flat-trantor-society.blogspot.com/2012/03/no-strncpy-is-not-safer-strcpy.html http://the-flat-trantor-society.blogspot.com/2012/03/no-strn...