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That's a non-problem

That's a non-problem

Posted May 21, 2009 11:11 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: That's a non-problem by msbrown
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

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.


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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.

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