On 02/18/2011 02:44 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > Used properly, yes you've avoided buffer overruns, used badly no. > strncpy(dest,src,strlen(src)+1) > Ridiculous? Yes. Never used in practice? I'd like to believe it. > strncpy has been in C since it was first standardised, but people > still write code that overflows. This is what code review is for.