Interesting article about the safe reimplementation of strcpy in curl. (Or "why programming in C is difficult".)
Note that one of the motivations was to avoid stupid "security reports" from automatic scans.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/
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