From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 1:24:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw-nl3.philips.com (gw-nl3.philips.com [192.68.44.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE9414E86 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 01:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl3.philips.com with ESMTP id KAA21903 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:23:55 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-eur1.philips.com(130.139.36.3) by gw-nl3.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma021899; Fri, 16 Jul 99 10:23:56 +0200 Received: from hal.mpn.cp.philips.com (hal.mpn.cp.philips.com [130.139.64.195]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with SMTP id KAA23331 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:23:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 16421 invoked by uid 666); 16 Jul 1999 08:24:16 -0000 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:24:16 +0200 From: Jos Backus To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) Message-ID: <19990716102416.E15838@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus References: <19990716101229.C15838@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> <19990716091518.A48864@palmerharvey.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990716091518.A48864@palmerharvey.co.uk>; from Dominic Mitchell on Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:15:19AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:15:19AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:12:29AM +0200, Jos Backus wrote: > > I just can't resist mentioning Dan Bernstein's implementation of a similar > > idea: stralloc - dynamically allocated strings. > > Has he actually LICENSEd any of his code yet? Dunno. There's ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/softwarelaw.html though. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message