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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:42:18 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au
Cc:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD security auditing project. 
Message-ID:  <199911240742.AAA18844@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 16:31:40 %2B1100." <99Nov24.162448est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au> 
References:  <99Nov24.162448est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au>  <99Nov24.075703est.40331@border.alcanet.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911232317170.40485-100000@green.dyndns.org> 

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In message <99Nov24.162448est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes:
: I wasn't implying that.  In fact, I believe the semantics of strncat()
: put it into the `hard to use correctly' category (or maybe `very likely
: to be misused').

I'd put strncat in the definitely unsafe category based on the number
of bugs that I've fixed with it over the years.

Warner


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