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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:17:45 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Paul Hart <hart@iserver.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) 
Message-ID:  <199907160017.SAA01078@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 02:12:35 %2B0200." <81297.932083955@axl.noc.iafrica.com> 
References:  <81297.932083955@axl.noc.iafrica.com>  

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In message <81297.932083955@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes:
: Reality check: we're talking about portability here. If we take these
: functions into our own libc, we really should make them work as expected
: on other platforms. However, there's nothing to stop us extending them
: beyond those expectations.

No.  They will be 100% compatible, or not imported.  No extensions
that could bite people when porting *TO* OpenBSD.

Warner


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