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Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> strlcpy is useful in situations where you want to just patch the problem
> and don't want to deep analysis of the code to figure out why a buffer is
> being used. This is an appropriate approach for a porter to take. It's
> not clear to me that this is an appropriate approach for a maintainer to
> take.
Sure, but libc should be useful for porters too.