Luke Mewburn writes:
>Not only that, but there is code that depends upon strncpy()
>zero-filling `dst' to `len' if strlen(`src') < `len'.

In general, yes, but in our *kernel*?  Shudder.

(So far I havent found any in the kernel; mostly device/interface
names, intrhandler names, boot-menu strings, bootpath, usw.
Dunno about the ACPI code.)