Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3)

[Warner Losh]

In message <19990715194203.A54146@mad> Tim Vanderhoek writes:
: Looking at OpenBSD's actual definition of strlcat() which returns the
: number of chars that would have been in the final string is
: potentially non-useful, but not really toooooo terrible.

No.  It is useful.  If you look at the return value, you can detect
that an overflow would have happened and bail w/o having the overflow
actually happen.  That is useful (and even documented in the man page
by a nice example).

: > given the opportunity to submit a replacement manpage, since theirs
: > sucks.
: 
: Bah.  You're in avail now.  Just commit ontop of whatever manpage gets
: imported.  ;-)  If your replacement is good, no one will object.  :)

I'm planning on committing their man page.  I don't see problems with
it, purhaps people could point them out to me so that both our man
pages and theirs could be better.

Warner


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