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Date:      13 Dec 2000 08:59:47 +0100
From:      assar@FreeBSD.ORG
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Safe string formatting in the kernel
Message-ID:  <5lvgsovjik.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:45:14 -0800"
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:01:09AM +0100, assar@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
> > There's no strlcpy/strlcat in the kernel.  But I think there should be
> > (independently of the sbuf stuff) and the appended patch adds them.
> > Any comments/reviews?
> 
> Will you also be looking into using them so we get some milage out of the
> extra kernel size?  (size is an on the boot floppy).

Once they're there, they should of course be used.  And strcpy/strcat
might get removed when they're not used any longer. :-)

Sizes I get on i386:

text    filename
111     strlcat.o
69      strlcpy.o
35      strcpy.o
43      strcat.o

/assar


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