You probably all know about the mainstream users of these functions, like the Linux kernel, or MacOS, or the other BSD's, and Solaris. In fact the Linux kernel

You probably all know about the mainstream users of these functions, like the Linux kernel, or MacOS, or the other BSD's, and Solaris. In fact the Linux kernel uses both strcpy and strlcpy -- strcpy is used more often. Sometimes strlcpy makes more sense than strcpy, other times not. It's not a popularity contest.