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Re: PATCH: safe string copy and concetation
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:58:37AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.lst.de> writes:
>
> > What's more insecure ?
>
> You obviously haven't read or did understand what you got told from
> several people. The proposal is rejceted for many reason, chief among
> them is that programs using them don't get fixed, just broken in a
> different way. So stop now, you have absolutely no arguments. If you
> find code which would need these functions, fix it *correctly*
> instead.
It's ok if you say it's not needed (although I think it is).
MacGyver's argument was that everyone should implement secure
functions himself and that's wronf in either way.
I will shut up know because I don't really see any chance for inclusion
anymore :(.
Christoph
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