I guess I should have known that this would open a can of worms. I'm NOT trying to advocate that anyone write new software using strlcpy() etc. I'm NOT trying to claim that these functions are "safe" or better than the alternatives. I'm only trying to support the porting of existing BSD packages to Fedora.
Some people seem to think that the way to do that is to rewrite/patch the packages to not use strlcpy(). My opinion is that doing that will make the software less reliable, not because strlcpy() is inherently reliable, but because replacing each instance of it with new hand-written replacement code is likely to introduce new bugs, make it more difficult to accept updates from upstream, and cause more long-term package maintenance problems for Fedora. Having a single, maintained library providing this and a few other BSD-specific functions is not a perfect solution, but there is no perfect solution. I could still use a package reviewer if anyone is willing to do that. Thanks! Eric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
