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Re:Beware of strncpy and strncat by gowld on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:15PM (#17248348)
> 08 Aug 2000

Any progress since?

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Re:Beware of strncpy and strncat by wyldfire on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:22PM (#17248418)
I think he still hates us ;)
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Re:Beware of strncpy and strncat by loeg on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:19PM (#17250739)
On the plus side, Drepper left Redhat in 2010 and has been out as the glibc DFL since 2012.[0]

Amusingly, a request for strlcpy was the very 2nd comment on that LWN article.

Unfortunately, glibc still hasn't added it — Roland rejected it again in 2015.[1] Also unfortunately, RH hired Drepper back in 2017. Because they hate their other employees, I guess. Fortunately, no one is eager to give him back the reins of glibc.

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/488847/

[1]: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/msg00086.html

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