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To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: the need for safe dynamic string libraries (was Re: svn commit:
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In message <20091207105343.GA62012@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:

>One way to promote this is to put the code in libc so even lazy
>people won't need to remember to pass linker flags when using the library.

I don't think sbuf's belong in libc, unless we can persude POSIX to
adopt them.

Poul-Henning

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