* Kenneth Van Wyk:

> 1) the original author of the defect thought that s/he was doing
> things correctly in using strncpy (vs. strcpy).

> 2) the original author had apparently been doing static source
> analysis using David Wheeler's Flawfinder tool, as we can tell from
> the comments.

This is not a first, BTW.  The Real folks have always been a bit
overzealous when adding those "Flawfinder: ignore" annotations:

<http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/vulnwatch/2005/03/msg00000.html>
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