[open-source] Re: Wish for 2002

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:

> If you've read this message carefully, perhaps you'll understand
> better why I think that strlcpy/strlcat are counterproductive in real code.
> (It's not an opinion that I've developed by armchair theorizing.  :-)

Agreed.  But glibc is filled with functions that are
"counterproductive in real code".  And yet, we have them, for very
good reasons.