Core by no means makes excessive use of these functions, but quite a large
number of those usages do require the caller to call strlen() on the
returned string.  This is quite wasteful since these functions do already
have a good idea of the length of the string, so we might as well just
have them return that.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Gierth
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