I imagine the biggest reason is actually portability. glibc [1] doesn't have strlcpy/strlcat, for example. 1 - http://lwn.net/Articles/507319/ http://lwn.net/A

I imagine the biggest reason is actually portability. glibc [1] doesn't have strlcpy/strlcat, for example. 1 - http://lwn.net/Articles/507319/ http://lwn.net/Articles/507319/