From: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Spacefalcon)
Subject: [TUHS] History of strncpy
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:56:14 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301231756.AA27240@ivan.Harhan.ORG> (raw)
Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> I suspect strcpy arrived with the "portable I/O library", an abomination
> that eventually evolved into the stdio library and to this day is still
> stinking up the standard C language.
What's so bad about stdio? That's a genuine question - I've never had
a reason to dislike stdio...
SF
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-23 17:56 Michael Spacefalcon [this message]
2013-01-23 21:08 ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-23 21:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 21:46 ` John Cowan
2013-01-24 6:02 ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-24 6:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2013-01-24 14:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-24 14:52 ` Warner Losh
2013-01-24 16:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-24 18:31 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2013-01-25 2:06 ` Warner Losh
2013-01-24 16:21 ` Clem Cole
2013-02-01 0:28 ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-31 23:52 ` Random832
2013-02-01 0:06 ` Warner Losh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-23 4:03 Nevin Liber
2013-01-23 4:41 ` Warren Toomey
2013-01-23 4:58 ` Warner Losh
2013-01-23 14:16 ` Clem Cole
2013-01-23 15:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 15:24 ` Armando Stettner
2013-01-23 17:49 ` scj
2013-01-23 18:19 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 19:33 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 19:59 ` Clem Cole
2013-01-23 22:43 ` Mary Ann Horton
2013-01-24 0:01 ` Clem Cole
2013-01-24 0:37 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
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