Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:48:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: julian@whistle.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) Message-ID: <199907160048.TAA21505@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <199907160014.RAA01977_dingo.cdrom.com@ns.sol.net> from Mike Smith at "Jul 16, 1999 0:22:40 am"
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> > but what about
> >
> > While ( more data items)
> > {
> > copy data items onto end of buffer
> > if full{
> > write out buffer
> > clear buffer, copy in rest of last item.
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> > I'd certainly not want to use xxprintf() for that
>
> This is what stdio does, funnily enough. See fwrite() etc.
I do like the idea of these functions... just ran into a problem a day
or two ago which would be completely awful to do with *printf, since it
involved assembling a line of text through two functions and a for()
loop... I thought briefly about trying to do it with strncat but I
gagged a bit at the obtuse way it would have needed to have been done.
... Joe
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