I am entirely uncertain of why this was downmodded. The _s functions are part of the C standard (Annex K), and truly are better replacements for their counterpa

I am entirely uncertain of why this was downmodded. The _s functions are part of the C standard (Annex K), and truly are better replacements for their counterparts. It's unfortunate that the glibc maintainers have shown so little interest in implementing this (optional, to be fair) part of the standard.