[LOSTWAGES] Add janitorial task to avoid using strncpy

[Mike McCormack]

ChangeLog:
* Add janitorial task to avoid using strncpy
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   Janitor's List</a>), and it's high time that we have one too.
   What is there to clean up? Well, lots of things! :)
 
+  <h2>Eliminate uses of strncpy/strncpyW</h2>
+
+  <i>strncpy(dst,src,n)</i> has two subtle
+  <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/07.aspx">
+  problems</a>.  The first is that it always fills the whole <i>dst</i>
+  buffer (<i>n</i> characters).  The second is that it doesn't always nul
+  terminate the <i>dst</i> buffer that it's filling.<p>
+
+  Wine code should avoid the use of strncpy for these reasons, and instead
+  use lstrcpyA/W or memcpy. You can use the following command to find
+  occurences of strncpy in the Wine source code:<p>
+
+  <tt>find . -name \*.c -exec grep strncpy {} \; -ls</tt><p>
+
+  The aim is to make sure that we only copy as many bytes as necessary into
+  the <i>dst</i> buffer, and always nul terminate the buffer when we
+  intended to.<p>
+
   <h2>Regedit fixes</h2>
 
   Regedit lacks a few features.  We need to improve regedit to: