From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 11 14:13:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA23054 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23049 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:13:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA01836 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05020; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:13:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar (jaguar.vale.com [204.117.217.146]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA01054; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:13:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3300EEED.6DE8@vailsys.com> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:13:01 -0600 From: Hal Snyder Reply-To: hal@vailsys.com Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter da Silva CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Utility routines: variable length strings, checked malloc, argv building, symbol table, and file scanning... References: <199702101507.JAA11865@bonkers.taronga.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter da Silva wrote: > Look in ~pds/utilib.shar on freefall. These should be useful, especially in > setuid programs that need to do a bunch of this sort of thing dynamically. Where? Couldn't find it. How do they compare with obstacks? http://www.cs.utah.edu/csinfo/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_3.html#SEC33