Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:28:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) Message-ID: <199907160028.SAA01218@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:42:03 EDT." <19990715194203.A54146@mad> References: <19990715194203.A54146@mad> <19990715183442.A53661@mad> <80092.932079193@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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In message <19990715194203.A54146@mad> Tim Vanderhoek writes: : Looking at OpenBSD's actual definition of strlcat() which returns the : number of chars that would have been in the final string is : potentially non-useful, but not really toooooo terrible. No. It is useful. If you look at the return value, you can detect that an overflow would have happened and bail w/o having the overflow actually happen. That is useful (and even documented in the man page by a nice example). : > given the opportunity to submit a replacement manpage, since theirs : > sucks. : : Bah. You're in avail now. Just commit ontop of whatever manpage gets : imported. ;-) If your replacement is good, no one will object. :) I'm planning on committing their man page. I don't see problems with it, purhaps people could point them out to me so that both our man pages and theirs could be better. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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