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Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, src-committers@freebsd.org,
	Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,
	svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: the need for safe dynamic string libraries
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> writes:
> > One way to promote this is to put the code in libc so even lazy
> > people won't need to remember to pass linker flags when using the libra=
ry.
> I don't think sbuf's belong in libc, unless we can persude POSIX to
> adopt them.

While I agree with you that we shouldn't merge libsbuf into libc, I
should point out that we have tons of stuff in libc (e.g. err() and
friends) that isn't in POSIX and probably never will be.

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