[PATCH] Add strlcpy, strlcat [BZ #178]

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Fri Jun 16 17:09:00 GMT 2017


On 06/16/2017 03:25 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I want to start again the discussion to include strlcpy and strlcat in
> glibc.

Technical progress in other areas has rendered this old proposal even 
less attractive than it was before. My laptop now supports gcc 
-fcheck-pointer-bounds, and Intel CET promises to resist buffer overrun 
attacks more conveniently and systematically. Why not see how these 
approaches play out, and in the meantime let strlcpy's sleeping dogs lie?



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