Linux 7.2 removes the buggy strncpy API after a long cleanup process. The cleanup spanned over six years and hundreds of commits; Justin Stitt alone added 211 of them. strncpy could leave destinations ...

Phoronix Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that ...