glibc 2.23 --- Hard freeze starting

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jan 18 22:29:00 GMT 2016


On 01/18/2016 11:06 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

>> 2. Add strlcpy/strlcat: from latest messages I noted Paul has asked to
>>    delay it to 2.24 for further discussions.
> 
> The status of this work needs a more detailed summary by Florian.
> 
> What's blocking adding these functions?

I thought we had something approximating consensus about adding them,
but Paul Eggert cast this into doubt recently:

  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00261.html>

Florian



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