Linux 7.2 removes the buggy strncpy API after a long cleanup process. The cleanup spanned over six years and hundreds of commits; Justin Stitt alone added 211 of them. strncpy could leave destinations ...

Phoronix 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 ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...