Hi, I recently had to tell someone that "strncpy" does not always zero terminate the destination string. Surprised by what I was telling they immediately wanted to change the way the function worked. When a function is defined by an ISO standard you are not supposed to change the definition. Instead I pointed the person at "strlcpy". Else you will have serious trouble when code is ported to a new platform.
http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlcpy.html The name "strdup" is very appealing, but it has already been taken and defined. You have to give your variant a different name and convince everyone that your function is good and solves a problem so that it deserves to be in the C-library. Then you simply run a script on your code: sed -s "s/ strdup[(]/ strsdup(/g" *.[ch] --HPS :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
