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Still no strlcpy and friends

Still no strlcpy and friends

Posted Mar 23, 2012 19:38 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Still no strlcpy and friends by HelloWorld
Parent article: GNU libc 2.15 released

I just read tialaramex' comment here:
http://lwn.net/Comments/488249/
and he put it better than I could:
> New standard library functions should, on the whole, reflect good existing practice. It's not clear that strlcpy-like functions in existing code are good practice, they're often just laziness. The C library already has more than enough of that.


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