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On Wed, 7 May 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

CH>On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:32:40AM -0700, David Schultz wrote:
CH>> >   strlcpy(struct string *a, struct string *b)
CH>> >   {
CH>> > 	  if (a->size == 0) {
CH>> > 		  b->size = 0;
CH>> > 		  return;
CH>> > 	  }
CH>> > 	  /* really copy the string */
CH>> >   }
CH>>
CH>> Hmm...but that program is broken.  If someone overrides a symbol
CH>> reserved by the C standard, he deserves whatever he gets.  It is
CH>> not unreasonable to expect applications to avoid using reserved
CH>> symbols for thier own purposes.
CH>
CH>strlcpy is not in any standard..

It is in ANSI's standard namespace...

harti
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