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@@ -138,17 +138,20 @@ be NUL terminated. This can lead to various linear read overflows and
other misbehavior due to the missing termination. It also NUL-pads
the destination buffer if the source contents are shorter than the
destination buffer size, which may be a needless performance penalty
-for callers using only NUL-terminated strings. The safe replacement is
+for callers using only NUL-terminated strings.
+
+When the destination is required to be NUL-terminated, the replacement is
strscpy(), though care must be given to any cases where the return value
of strncpy() was used, since strscpy() does not return a pointer to the
destination, but rather a count of non-NUL bytes copied (or negative
errno when it truncates). Any cases still needing NUL-padding should
instead use strscpy_pad().
-If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strncpy() can
-still be used, but destinations should be marked with the `__nonstring
+If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strtomem() should be
+used, and the destinations should be marked with the `__nonstring
<https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html>`_
-attribute to avoid future compiler warnings.
+attribute to avoid future compiler warnings. For cases still needing
+NUL-padding, strtomem_pad() can be used.
strlcpy()
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