[PATCH v3] Implement strlcpy [BZ #178]

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 11/09/2015 07:59 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2015, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, in general, if adding a function to glibc is a bad idea,
>> adding it in its own separate .so file shipped with glibc is an even
>> worse idea. There are no advantages and lots of disadvantages.
> 
> While it's trivially true that "adding a function to glibc is a bad idea" 
> means it's bad to add it to any library in glibc, existing or new, there 
> may well be cases where the conclusion is "it's a good idea to add this 
> function to glibc, but in a new library (which might be might not be 
> linked in automatically via AS_NEEDED in a .so linker script)".  Cf. 
> libmvec or the libinux-syscalls.so.1 discussion.  It's just that I don't 
> see strlcpy, strlcat or explicit_bzero as such cases - I see them as cases 
> that belong in libc.

I agree.

Cheers,
Carlos.