On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > Ugh. Take the first example in the paper; it rewrites as > > len = asprintf(&path, "%s/.foorc"); > > as opposed to > > strlcat(path, homedir, sizeof(path)); > strlcat(path, "/", sizeof(path)); > strlcat(path, ".foord", sizeof(path)); > len = strlen(path); > > Yes, they're a better str*cat/cpy, but they're not the solution that > they claim to be.
I don't think that anyone has intended them to be anything other than a better replacement for strcpy/strcat than strncpy/strncat (which they certainly are). Sure, you could go around telling people "use snprintf instead" or "use asprintf instead", but is that the issue at hand? Paul Hart -- Paul Robert Hart ><8> ><8> ><8> Verio Web Hosting, Inc. h...@iserver.com ><8> ><8> ><8> http://www.iserver.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
