Wish for 2002

[Mark Brown]

Christoph Hellwig wrote on 03/01/02 3:36 AM:

> There's a lot of stuf under __USE_BSD in glibc that's in no standard at
> all.  strlcpy/strlcat is in ~75% of the currently sold unix versions
> which makes it some kind of defacto standard.

No, it just means that those OSes happen to have a common base. It doesn't
make those APIs into proper practice (look at how many OSes still offer
setuid shell scripts, yet I don't recommend *that* as a good thing to
do either....)

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Mark S. Brown                                             bmark@us.ibm.com