From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 20 5:12:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9C5152FE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 116YiV-0002Wk-00; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:09:51 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Warner Losh Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:40:17 CST." <199907160040.SAA01415@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:09:51 +0200 Message-ID: <9717.932472591@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:40:17 CST, Warner Losh wrote: > I can see your point. I don't know if I'll like your man pages better > or not, but I'd be willing to give them a spin. Bring on the humble pie. It really isn't practical to try to have these pages match the approach of the existing pages. The best approach would be to add a description of strlcpy() to the strcpy.3 page and a description of strlcat() to the strcat.3 page. The differences between the new functions and those whose manpages they should be described in make for more confusion than we save by including them there. So I withdraw my objection to the style of the strl*() manpages, but only because I have nothing better to offer. ;-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message