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Here's hoping strlcat gets in

Posted May 6, 2009 17:23 UTC (Wed) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129)
In reply to: Here's hoping strlcat gets in by epa
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC

Probably, although they aren't really that much better (if you want a real string API in C, go use one). Having a compatible version of asprintf() will be nice though (assuming he takes that), and I imagine there's a bunch of other minor things on other people's wishlist.

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Posted May 6, 2009 17:27 UTC (Wed) by notting (guest, #28878) [Link]

Given a goal of "[striving] to be source and binary compatible with GLIBC", adding functions, or changing the semantics of existing ones, would seem to be out of scope.