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Re: [PATCH] Implement strlcpy [BZ #178]
- From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:08:01 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement strlcpy [BZ #178]
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Florian Weimer wrote:
> The implementations I have seen bypass fortify protection. We could
> make libbsd the canonical implementation and bring it up to current
> glibc standards, but it would be a Fedora-only effort with limited
> benefit.
Why would that be a Fedora-only effort with limited benefit?
Curious,
Jonathan