Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9

[Munish Chopra <chopra@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:37:10PM +0200, Douwe Kiela wrote:
> From: "Matthew Dillon" <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   Modified files:
> >     share/man/man9       style.9
> >   Log:
> >   Minor style cleanups.  Start a list of obsolete functions that should no
> >   longer be used, and add a warning about the use of unbounded string
> functions.
> Hey, it wouldn't be a bad idea to also mention that strlcpy should sometimes
> be used over strncpy, would it? OpenBSD created the function because
> strncpy's security is insufficient in some cases, so I guess it wouldn't be

[...]

They also took care of some performance concerns unless I'm
mistaken. It's in one of the papers on the strl* stuff, though I can't
remember which one off the top of my head.

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Munish Chopra