cvs commit: src/share/man/man9
Munish Chopra
chopra at soulwax.net
Sat Sep 4 15:00:34 PDT 2004
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:37:10PM +0200, Douwe Kiela wrote:
> From: "Matthew Dillon" <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Modified files:
> > share/man/man9 style.9
> > Log:
> > Minor style cleanups. Start a list of obsolete functions that should no
> > longer be used, and add a warning about the use of unbounded string
> functions.
> Hey, it wouldn't be a bad idea to also mention that strlcpy should sometimes
> be used over strncpy, would it? OpenBSD created the function because
> strncpy's security is insufficient in some cases, so I guess it wouldn't be
[...]
They also took care of some performance concerns unless I'm
mistaken. It's in one of the papers on the strl* stuff, though I can't
remember which one off the top of my head.
--
Munish Chopra
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