From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 13 5:46:34 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 05:46:32 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAB337B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 05:46:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA66483; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:46:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Terry Lambert Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), kris@citusc.usc.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Safe string formatting in the kernel References: <200012130925.CAA27496@usr08.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Dec 2000 14:46:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:25:51 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: > > ...unfortunately, just like many other good things, we can't > > easily change the API of things like open(2)... > Why not? BSD/OS (and other) binaries would stop working on FreeBSD, to name just one reason. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message