PATCH: safe string copy and concetation

[Christoph Hellwig]

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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