Also most of the time people have serious performance regressions with strncpy() as the function overwrites with 0 all the test of the buffer. char buffer

Also most of the time people have serious performance regressions with strncpy() as the function overwrites with 0 all the test of the buffer. char buffer[2000]; strcpy(buffer, "hello", sizeof buffer); writes "hello" and 1995 0 to the buffer.