In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=131144815722541&w=1>,
Mark Kettenis wrote
> We should add stuff like this only if specified by
> a standard we care about, or if it's supported on the majority of
> UNIX-ike operating systems.
Or if it's a Good Thing To Do on technical grounds. (That is, after
all, the reason why we added the strl* functions, and many many other
things too.)
IMHO this is the key question: never mind other OSs, do we think
that \<word\> is a Good Thing to have in OpenBSD?
IMHO the answer is yes, and it should be in libc so that everyone
gets it consistently.
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