The ups and downs of strlcpy()
The ups and downs of strlcpy()
Posted Jul 31, 2012 1:30 UTC (Tue) by khc (guest, #45209)In reply to: The ups and downs of strlcpy() by nix
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nevermind that posix_spawn() uses fork/exec on linux anyway
Posted Jul 31, 2012 23:38 UTC (Tue)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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The ups and downs of strlcpy()
True, so the underlying overcommit problem isn't actually fixed by it, except inasmuch as it sometimes falls back to vfork() for you. It just makes your software much much uglier, and makes it work better on major platforms such as MMU-less embedded systems, the Hurd, and Cygwin.