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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 4th edition file server available
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:28:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b0994394f864884ebdd5dab41527f53@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030114120717.I94385-100000@fbsd.acl.lanl.gov>

> Miller, T. C., Raadt, T. D.
> strlcpy and strlcat -- Consistent, Safe, String Copy and Concatenation.
> Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference. June,
> 1999. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/strlcpy-paper.ps

surely this is near the top of the list for most trivial usenix paper ever.

> on the other hand I think we're in the unique position to fix strncpy
> instead of adding another syscall

strecpy serves a similar purpose.

we left strncat alone to avoid surprises when porting plan 9
code to other systems.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-14 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-13 10:01 Richard Miller
2003-01-13 17:13 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-14 15:20   ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-01-14 18:55     ` Scott Schwartz
2003-01-14 19:11       ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-01-14 19:18         ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-01-14 19:28         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-01-15  9:34           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-01-15 14:22             ` Russ Cox
2003-01-13 17:19 ` rob pike, esq.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-10 21:06 Andrey S. Kukhar
2003-01-14 19:13 Russ Cox
2003-01-14 18:23 Skip Tavakkolian
2003-01-14  6:06 okamoto
2003-01-14 13:55 ` David Presotto
2003-02-14 16:04 ` Andrey S. Kukhar
2003-01-12  2:36 Joel Salomon
2003-01-12  3:10 ` jmk
2003-01-09 13:44 rog
2003-01-09 14:39 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-08  8:13 okamoto
2003-01-08 16:56 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-08  7:18 Skip Tavakkolian
2003-01-08  6:45 Russ Cox
2003-01-08 11:09 ` Axel Belinfante
2003-01-08 15:57   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-01-08 15:56 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-01-08 16:53   ` Russ Cox
2003-01-08 22:52 ` Andrew
2003-01-08 22:54   ` Russ Cox
2003-01-09  8:24     ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-01-09 13:16 ` Axel Belinfante
2002-11-06 17:37 [9fans] ddc Russ Cox
2002-11-06 17:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-11-06 19:33   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-11-06 20:39 ` Jim Choate
2002-11-07  3:17   ` Doc Shipley
2002-11-07  4:57     ` Jim Choate
2002-11-07  5:39       ` Lucio De Re
2002-11-07  5:45       ` Doc Shipley
2002-11-07  6:08         ` Jim Choate
2002-11-07  4:21 ` Lucio De Re
2002-11-07  8:24 ` paurea
2002-10-15  1:20 [9fans] EHLO EHLO presotto
2002-10-15 16:23 ` Dan Cross
2002-10-15 16:47   ` Anthony Mandic
2002-10-15 22:22     ` Nigel Roles
2002-10-15 23:05       ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-10-16  7:12         ` Steve Kilbane
2002-10-17  9:48           ` Boyd Roberts
2002-10-16  8:54         ` Anthony Mandic

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