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Well, it was WONTFIXed in 2004, which is just ten years ago: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178

Maybe it's worth reheating the debate?




The new glibc maintainers have very different opinions, and have reversed many WONTFIXes


Or perhaps we ought to drop this junk already. Musl libc implements strlcpy while being a whole lot less bloaty than glibc.




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