[PATCH] Implement strlcpy [BZ #178]

[Florian Weimer]

On 09/15/2014 05:53 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> It would not be a good idea to add this to glibc, not only because this
> implementation would be incompatible with OpenBSD's, but more generally
> because the interface is poorly designed.

How is it incompatible with the OpenBSD implementation?

> It's *particularly* not a good idea to add propaganda to the manual,
> with phrases calling strlcpy "more useful".  I mean, c'mon.

The original documentation for strncpy already called it “rarely 
useful”, otherwise I wouldn't have used this phrasing.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security