the need for safe dynamic string libraries (was Re: svn commit: r200157 - head/bin/date)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20091207125436.GA71075 at onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:40:23PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> I would be very happy to see a libposux, even more so, if the content
>> were standardized across Linux and FreeBSD.
>:)
>if we call it libyousux each party (posix, linux, bsd, ...)
>could pretend that the blame is on the others!

The suckage is rightly POSIX', so libposux conveys the correct meaning.

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