It's 2015 and Linus still doesn't know what a C string is

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/28/570

So what's the New Improved Method to replace strlcpy(buffer, "the default value", size_of_buffer);, then? Surely nothing that involves typing the string literal twice.

That being said, there are circumstances where mempcpy() etc. would be just the bee's knees. strlcpy() isn't one. strlcat(), though, is.