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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2023-06-14 18:10:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2023-06-14 18:10:08 +0200 |
| commit | 454a20c8756c9c1d55419153255fc7692b3d2199 (patch) | |
| tree | a65ad84288a247995183089f4400e4fd080ecc9d /NEWS | |
| parent | 7ba426a1115318fc11f4355f3161f35817a06ba4 (diff) | |
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Implement strlcpy and strlcat [BZ #178]
These functions are about to be added to POSIX, under Austin Group issue 986. The fortified strlcat implementation does not raise SIGABRT if the destination buffer does not contain a null terminator, it just inherits the non-failing regular strlcat behavior. Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 23051cf139..7a4df85f08 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ Major new features: The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI, they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point. +* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived + from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the |