On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:41:22AM +0100, Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:15:24 +0100 (CET)
> Tamas TEVESZ <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > what would be the reaction if i were to introduce the use of strlcpy 
> > and strlcat?
> > 
> > i've been having this itch about all thouse unbounded string ops 
> > everywhere (just try GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT=`perl -e 'print "a"x1500'` 
> > getstyle), and while they can be fixed with strncat/strncpy, strl* is 
> > just easier.
> > 
> > they are almost everywhere by now (except glibc, of course, but it it 
> > not unprecedented for linux vendors to patch it in), but for those 
> > systems lacking, a (isc-licensed) reference implementation could be 
> > lifted easily.
> > 
> > of course i'd be relying heavily on sir raorn to do the autoconf stuff 
> > :)
> > 
> > -- 
> > [-]
> > 
> > mkdir /nonexistent
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> Is that portable to BSD systems?
> Gilbert
> 
man strlcpy
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HISTORY
     The strlcpy() and strlcat() functions first appeared in OpenBSD 2.4


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