Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:37:13 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: the need for safe dynamic string libraries Message-ID: <42550.1260189433@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:28:04 %2B0100." <861vj7t1d7.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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In message <861vj7t1d7.fsf@ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= writes: >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: >While I agree with you that we shouldn't merge libsbuf into libc, I >should point out that we have tons of stuff in libc (e.g. err() and >friends) that isn't in POSIX and probably never will be. I know. For a lot of the stuff, it reflects badly on POSIX (and/or ISO-C) that it isn't. Poul-Henning -- 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.
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