@Tim I have a suggestion for an experiment you can try: (1) write a post that directly pertains to something you are trying to accomplish (not a hypothetical, theoretical, or academic question); (2) ensure that it contains relevant technical information on what you're attempting, what you've tried, and how it fell short; (3) provide any requested technical clarifications without any reference to people at all (self or others). (4) See what happens.
In Computer Systems: a Programmer's Perspective,
Unfortunately,
a number of commonly used library functions, including strcpy, strcat, and
sprintf, have the property that they can generate a byte sequence without being
given any indication of the size of the destination buffer [97]. Such conditi...