Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:28:04 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> 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: <861vj7t1d7.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <42026.1260183338@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:55:38 %2B0000") References: <42026.1260183338@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> writes: > > One way to promote this is to put the code in libc so even lazy > > people won't need to remember to pass linker flags when using the libra= ry. > I don't think sbuf's belong in libc, unless we can persude POSIX to > adopt them. 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. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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