We can remove strncpy() from the Linux kernel finally! I did the last 6 instances, and dropped all the implementations:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=dev/v7.0-rc2/strncpy

Over the last 6 years working on this, there were 362 commits by 70 contributors. The folks with more than 1 commit were:

211 Justin Stitt <[email protected]>
22 Xu Panda <[email protected]>
21 Kees Cook <[email protected]>
17 Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
12 Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
4 Pranav Tyagi <[email protected]>
4 Lee Jones <[email protected]>
2 Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
2 Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
2 Marcelo Moreira <[email protected]>
2 Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
2 Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
2 Jaroslav Kysela <[email protected]>
2 Daniel Thompson <[email protected]>
2 Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>

Thank you to all of you! (And especially to Justin Stitt who took on the brunt of the work.)

kernel/git/kees/linux.git - Various feature branches

@kees
Great work, though it should never have been used in the first place.

@raymaccarthy @kees

it didn't insure destination NULL termination but it allowed something like a session protocol to pad for you .
so in a perfect world if you can call TCP and understand offsets you can just about roll your own sessions.