strncat is insufficient

[Rahul Dhesi]

Having recently written some code that does string manipulation and
takes some pains to avoid buffer overflow, I conclude that strncat() is
nearly useless.  Most of the time I want to avoid string overflow by
doing this:

     append str2 to str1, but cause at most n characters to be in str1.

Here is what strncat() does:

     append str2 to str1, but copy at most n characters.

I think the standard C library badly needs another function called,
say, strlimcat(), which limits the length of the destination string to
some value.
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