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A turning point for GNU libc

A turning point for GNU libc

Posted Mar 28, 2012 17:17 UTC (Wed) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: A turning point for GNU libc by cmorgan
Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc

there's nothing wrong with strcpy and co.
seriously, everyone who wants to outright ban them does not think it through.

(and btw the glibc version of strcpy and co actually do buffer overflow checks with the help of the gcc compiler for various cases)


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