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That's a non-problem

Posted May 20, 2009 22:15 UTC (Wed) by msbrown (subscriber, #38262)
In reply to: That's a non-problem by dlang
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

No, the strl* family is not in POSIX 2008. They were proposed but rejected since they did not really solve the problem (as pointed out above).

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and what would they standardize?

Posted May 21, 2009 4:27 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The OpenBSD strlcat has different behavior than the Solaris strlcat, which makes it a problem to use the function in a portable application.

That's a non-problem

Posted May 21, 2009 11:11 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

We can point to strtok() and gets(), already in POSIX, as interfaces even more stupid than strlcpy(), but that hardly seems like a compelling argument for inclusion.

That's a non-problem

Posted May 21, 2009 17:05 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

gets() and strtok() are in POSIX because they're in the ISO C standard runtime library, and POSIX includes the ISO C standard library in its entirety by reference.