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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen setproctitle.3 syslog.3 src/lib/libc/stdio printf.3 
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:09:23 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20010530182822.A79068@xor.obsecurity.org> Kris Kennaway writes:
: I'd also welcome this.  I also want better manpage documentation about
: things like how to use strncpy() properly, whether to use
: array[FOO_MAX] or array[FOO_MAX+1] for proper bounding of buffers
: passed to library (e.g. POSIX) functions, etc.  These should include
: code snippets so people can easily get the right idea instead of
: having to infer from verbal descriptions.  Some of this stuff best
: goes in the individual function manpages, but the second class
: includes examples of a general implementation used by a number of
: functions.

If someone gets the bones of a string.7 (or safe-sex.7 or
safe-programming.7 or sprog.7 or whatever you want to call it) into
the tree, I'll add what I know about the POSIXly correct thing to do,
as well as known unsafe interfaces/practices.

Warner

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