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Date:      Sat, 12 May 2001 01:35:29 -0500
From:      seebs@bsdi.com (Peter Seebach)
To:        dan@bsdpro.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding a new function to libc 
Message-ID:  <200105120635.f4C6ZUq15722@guild.plethora.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 May 2001 02:10:45 EDT." <01051202104500.95296@blackhole.BSDpro.com> 

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In message <01051202104500.95296@blackhole.BSDpro.com>, Daniel Hemmerich writes
:
>Any comments, suggestions, swears concerning adding a new function, 
>strndup(), to libc?

Well, the obvious potential concern is that str[a-z]* is reserved namespace,
and what if a future spec has a *different* strndup?

>So that instead of permitting it to attempt to allocate a large chunk of 
>memory, it is possible to give it a max length.

Well, this one is clearly wrong, because if you have a string of max_len,
it isn't terminated.

-s

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