From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5131
Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_Cegie=C5=82ka?= <daniel.cegielka@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general
Subject: Re: thoughts on reallocarray, explicit_bzero?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:19:11 +0200
Message-ID: <CAPLrYETGwSKVHrc09hFKf4iBU2aX-RyPYbJ5D28OA0t2QfJjuA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20140519153130.GA519@muslin> <20140519154302.GN507@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400516395 6929 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2014 16:19:55 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 16:19:55 +0000 (UTC)
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Original-X-From: musl-return-5136-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon May 19 18:19:46 2014
Return-path: <musl-return-5136-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com>
Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org
Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200])
	by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69)
	(envelope-from <musl-return-5136-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com>)
	id 1WmQHw-0001FG-GN
	for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2014 18:19:44 +0200
Original-Received: (qmail 19505 invoked by uid 550); 19 May 2014 16:19:43 -0000
Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:musl@lists.openwall.com>
List-Help: <mailto:musl-help@lists.openwall.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:musl-unsubscribe@lists.openwall.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:musl-subscribe@lists.openwall.com>
Original-Received: (qmail 19497 invoked from network); 19 May 2014 16:19:43 -0000
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
        h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to
         :content-type;
        bh=jhgas3OYuqJgeMILpfjJeEwTa4nxMMlBxevgxDvG8Lk=;
        b=ZZ+d292IpXYQbHPJjipUTcGRzA7EdvVYed+n9kq37SuIOm/jAK3GJLAstVkoazL02c
         X1KYRqUoIxZ2v7LO0VyeGYnqbCzl95vE5/uO85CS4YZrdWpN+yIb1pESOkJ2B5ixgEd2
         3Xnk+IraKt36+z4OOMQfPqnDCZFDxeOKigqvmlRgltC3bcRU43R+H+7cAooPupcfk/Cl
         6foctMdYOafrMyuReM38YBnrlJVSDS1JP2TRBwGlkLSzGFvETMT4L2eKlTaU/QmV2gHr
         fORdazKuXRgZSMVJD5qvlRWuBi7C3k1wpHwjvNPM0+E7Sws2nd57evuxRMv4gpewGIW4
         ZwmQ==
X-Received: by 10.140.36.149 with SMTP id p21mr48552439qgp.54.1400516371887;
 Mon, 19 May 2014 09:19:31 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20140519154302.GN507@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5131
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5131>

2014-05-19 17:43 GMT+02:00 Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>:

>>
>> Should musl provide reallocarray()?
>
> I don't think so; there's no precedent for it yet except OpenBSD.
> LibreSSL should just add a fallback implementation (trivial to write
> as a wrapper to realloc) for all non-OpenBSD systems that lack it.

The problem is that these functions are now used everywhere in
openbsd's repo., so it's not just LibreSSL but ed, pax, mandoc, m4,
(open)ssh, (open)smtpd, etc.

Thanks,
Daniel