how many times is strlcpy used? This bug was fixed with strlcpy:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

Probably not much:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strlcpy#Criticism

Fortunately, Ulrich Drepper doesn't work on the kernel. Otherwise we would all have to pay money to open bug reports[1]

His preferred solution is to use the highly portable

  *((char *) mempcpy (dst, src, n)) = '\0';

make of that what you will…

[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980

strlcpy -> 1063

strncpy isn't always better. It's just as easy to misuse strncpy as it is to properly sanitize strcpy inputs.