Tech Times reports: 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 the kernel's own documentation labels "actively dangerous," from every subsystem, driv...

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8833716

In a win for memory safety in Linux, support for the C language “strncpy” function was finally removed from the Linux Kernel! This improves code readability in several hundred places and removes a constant source of error codes and even security vulnerabilities!

Full Tech Times article here, but I found the summary on slashdot easier to understand on first reading.