[open-source] Re: Wish for 2002

Thomas Bushnell, BSG tb@becket.net
Mon Jan 7 16:33:00 GMT 2002


Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> strlcpy is useful in situations where you want to just patch the problem
> and don't want to deep analysis of the code to figure out why a buffer is
> being used.  This is an appropriate approach for a porter to take.  It's
> not clear to me that this is an appropriate approach for a maintainer to
> take.

Sure, but libc should be useful for porters too.



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