Comment by dale_huevo

Linux would have had strlcpy/strlcat 25 years ago but the glibc maintainer was famously being a giant chode and refused to allow "horribly inefficient BSD crap" into his precious code, and this fight went on for years:

https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053...

So it wasn't for lack of trying. Yes, Open Source can't coordinate and this is why we can't have nice things.