From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 15 9:57:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C141567F for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA11249; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:57:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199907151657.JAA11249@apollo.backplane.com> To: Paul Hart Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :I was just reviewing the proceedings from the USENIX 1999 Annual Technical :Conference where Todd Miller and Theo de Raadt presented a paper on two :new functions that OpenBSD has integrated into libc. The new functions, :strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3), are intended to provide an easily understood :... :I was impressed by the paper and wondered if anyone besides myself would :be amenable to including them in FreeBSD's libc. Are there members of the :FreeBSD core and community that would be interested in importing these new :functions? The semantics of strncpy(3) and strncat(3) have struck me as :warts on the C standard for some time. I'm not sure what debate took :... : :If you are a USENIX member you can access the text of the paper at: : : http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/millert.html : :Paul Hart :Paul Robert Hart ><8> ><8> ><8> Verio Web Hosting, Inc. I was quite impressed with that paper too and would love to see the functions added to libc. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message