Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:11:54 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: objections to sbuf? Message-ID: <35886.976734714@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:02:31 PST." <200012131902.eBDJ2Vx84987@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200012131902.eBDJ2Vx84987@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: >:Considering mailing list archives content, I think the "... fix in >:a second" is subject to some debate... >: >:A good API saves many programming and debugging hours. >: >:-- >:Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >:phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > > I grepped through and looked at every sprintf, strcpy, and strcat > in the kernel. It is *NOT* a big deal. It is certainly a hellofalot > less work to convert those to snprintf/strlcpy/etc then to convert > them to sbuf. I don't recall anybody mentioning much less suggesting a wholesale rewrite of every string operation in the kernel... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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