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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:30:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com, rnordier@nordier.com
Subject:   Re: snprintf() in the kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.981124131727.8419F-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811242106.NAA05958@bubba.whistle.com>

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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
> >     Personally, I think we need to move to length-limited copies for all
> >     string operations.  The code may be correct as is, and it may seem obvious
> >     to the people who wrote it, but FreeBSD is a collective effort and the
> >     more mistakes we can prevent in the future without compromising code
> >     effectiveness the better.  
> 
code that doesn't obviously do what it does should be either heavily
commented or considered a bug..  It will eventually trick someone..

julian



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