Still no strlcpy and friends [LWN.net]

Still no strlcpy and friends

Posted Mar 23, 2012 14:07 UTC (Fri) by adobriyan (guest, #30858)
In reply to: Still no strlcpy and friends by dgm
Parent article: GNU libc 2.15 released

> If an slow and safe string is all you need

nice

> Just use whatever are given in your chosen language and move on.

The problem is that I'm C guy mostly.
But there is nothing given in C.
Exactly nothing.

The correct fix belongs into the programming language.
Looking at other PLs and several C "solutions" it should be obvious.

From this POV, Ulrich's decision is very smart.

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