[?OT?] strndup exists in FreeBSD?
Steve Franks
stevefranks at ieee.org
Mon Apr 14 23:27:44 UTC 2008
> While it seems like a cool function name, what's the point of having it?
> If you know how much you want to copy, it's trivial to allocate a buffer
> large enough and strlcpy() into it. If you don't know how much you want
> to copy, then strdup() is ok anyway :)
Granted. It's just one more thing to hack when porting linux code
(which I'm getting rather tired of doing, I must admit - they seem to
assume everyone likes to include every new api ever concieved, then
they go off and use them...)
Steve
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