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Date:      Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:37:13 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Subject:   Re: the need for safe dynamic string libraries 
Message-ID:  <42550.1260189433@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:28:04 %2B0100." <861vj7t1d7.fsf@ds4.des.no> 

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In message <861vj7t1d7.fsf@ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= writes:
>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:

>While I agree with you that we shouldn't merge libsbuf into libc, I
>should point out that we have tons of stuff in libc (e.g. err() and
>friends) that isn't in POSIX and probably never will be.

I know.

For a lot of the stuff, it reflects badly on POSIX (and/or ISO-C) that
it isn't.

Poul-Henning

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