the need for safe dynamic string libraries

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <861vj7t1d7.fsf at ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= writes:
>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at 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

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