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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) 
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:56:44 -0600
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In message <4.2.0.58.19990715194914.045ee7d0@localhost> Brett Glass writes:
: Since OpenBSD is the only platform currently integrating the functions,
: there's time to work with them to make this the standard if we'd like.

Too late.  Linux (glibc I'm told) and Solaris 7 (or is that Solaris 8) 
implements that.  It is too late to change.  So arguing about it is
useless.

Warner


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