the need for safe dynamic string libraries

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:33:37PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> writes:
> > But my point is-- does the functionality that was removed rely
> > on a different API, or we can keep the same API and have two
> > different implementation of the hopefully few things that change
> > between kernel and userland
> 
> Restoring sbuf_printf() to what it was would not change the API, but the
> semantics would be different in certain cases.

doesn't seem a big deal, we already have diffent behaviour in
kernel vs userland for certain functions (e.g. printf() itself,
if nothing else the format specifiers are different in some cases).