From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 7 12:28:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3221065697; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFAB8FC1F; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0521C6D41C; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D3A92844E9; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:28:04 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" References: <42026.1260183338@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:28:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <42026.1260183338@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:55:38 +0000") Message-ID: <861vj7t1d7.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Ed Schouten , src-committers@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: the need for safe dynamic string libraries X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:28:06 -0000 "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: > Luigi Rizzo 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. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no