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Here's hoping strlcat gets in

Here's hoping strlcat gets in

Posted May 7, 2009 14:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Here's hoping strlcat gets in by ncm
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC

You want misbegotten functions? gets(). Why on earth it wasn't thrown out in the early 1980s along with the rest of the pre-stdio I/O library I have no idea.


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