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Date:      13 Dec 2000 14:46:26 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), kris@citusc.usc.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Safe string formatting in the kernel
Message-ID:  <xzpitoosabx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:25:51 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <200012130925.CAA27496@usr08.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > ...unfortunately, just like many other good things, we can't
> > easily change the API of things like open(2)...
> Why not?

BSD/OS (and other) binaries would stop working on FreeBSD, to name
just one reason.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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