From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 11:40:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28430 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28424 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:39:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25405; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Warner Losh cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:19:42 MDT." <199808201619.KAA20970@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:39:17 -0700 Message-ID: <25401.903638357@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So rather than hack some really complicated a and na's, I write a new > function, added it to libc and then modified all of src/lib to use > this new function. I called it frealloc (freeing realloc). I added > it to the man page, etc. I know that this isn't in ANSI C nor in > POSIX, but after seeing how hard it was to get people to use strncpy > right, I thought it would be good to add this to libc. Looks to me like the best choice in a sea of even worse choices. ;) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message