Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:20:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Paul Hart <hart@iserver.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990715171650.19105D-100000@anchovy.orem.iserver.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990715155513.6348C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> There was a talk on these (strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3)) at USENIX.
> The logic as to their design was presented and I agree totally with
> the way that the logic was played out into the functions.
>
> They are described in the FreeNIX proceedings on page 175.
> I feel they make a lot more sense that teh present version sand we should
> support OpenBSD's application to Posix to make them standard.
Yes, this discussion started out on freebsd-security and when I first
wrote about it, I mentioned the paper at USENIX by Todd Miller and Theo de
Raadt. It was later mentioned that the paper and accompanying slides are
available at:
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/strlcpy-paper.ps
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/strlcpy-slides.ps
I think each function is well thought out and I think they'd be a great
addition to FreeBSD.
Paul Hart
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