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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.

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