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When people say, "strcpy() is dangerous, use strncpy() instead" (or similar statements about strcat() etc., but I am going to use strcpy() here as my focus), they mean that there is no bounds checking in strcpy(). Thus, an overly long string will result in buffer overruns. They are…

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