Worth noting that strncpy doesn't stand for secure string copy or anything like that. Using strncpy for copying strings would be a mistake, even if technically

Worth noting that strncpy doesn't stand for secure string copy or anything like that. Using strncpy for copying strings would be a mistake, even if technically you can do that. Rather, it's a fixed size string copy function. This structure is very rare in regular environments, but they can happen in embedded environments. For instance, if you want to have a string in binary file which is at most 10 bytes, you may want to avoid storing the termination byte when the string is exactly 10 bytes long. For instance, such a structure was used in UNIX to store file names, as they used to be limited to 14 bytes, and storing terminator would be a waste of space.