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That's silly. You can have strlcat() and strlcpy(), yet be compatible

That's silly. You can have strlcat() and strlcpy(), yet be compatible

Posted May 23, 2009 10:04 UTC (Sat) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)
In reply to: That's silly. You can have strlcat() and strlcpy(), yet be compatible by nix
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

I am sorry, I did not. My bad. On the other hand, I do not think the same argument was ironic when used to motivate Debians use of eglibc.


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That's silly. You can have strlcat() and strlcpy(), yet be compatible

Posted May 23, 2009 11:37 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The point isn't strfry() et al. It's that Ulrich's behaviour towards
someone trying to fix a bug in that exemplifies his behaviour towards
*anyone* trying to contribute *anything*, except if he's known them a long
time (and sometimes not even then).

I could dig up dozens of examples but it's too depressing and it's a bank
holiday here and I have two flashy new Nehalems to bring up (die, old
ten-year-outdated PIIIs! ... only thing is I'm not sure 36Gb RAM in the
two combined will be enough ;} )

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