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Re: PATCH: safe string copy and concetation

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch at caldera dot de>

Subject: Re: PATCH: safe string copy and concetation

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>

Date: 08 Aug 2000 09:43:59 -0700

Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com

References: <20000808181701.A29165@ns.lst.de>

Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> writes: > this patch implements the string functions strlcat and > strlcpy for gnu libc. This is horribly inefficient BSD crap. Using these function only leads to other errors. Correct string handling means that you always know how long your strings are and therefore you can you memcpy (instead of strcpy). Beside, those who are using strcat or variants deserved to be punished. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------