From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:08:53 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] History of strncpy In-Reply-To: <1301231756.AA27240@ivan.Harhan.ORG> References: <1301231756.AA27240@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Message-ID: <20130123210853.GG22032@bitmover.com> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:56:14PM +0000, Michael Spacefalcon wrote: > Ronald Natalie 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... Well, there are little incompats that make cross platform unpleasant. We (bitkeeper source management guys) gave up and imported the NetBSD stdio library and ship that. Which did enable some fun enhancements. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com