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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by AaronBallman on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:51AM (#22865922)
We've been considering proposals to add common POSIX APIs into C, but I don't believe we've seen a proposal for strlcpy or strlcat yet. I recall we agreed to add strdup to C given its wide availability and usage.
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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by DougGwyn on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:17AM (#22866265)
There are deficiencies in almost all proposals. Two new functions which avoid the problems are supposed to be published in C202x: strcasecmp and strncasecmp, added in header strings.h (note: not string.h).
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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by sramsay on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:48PM (#22869882)
strdup seems like a perfect example of "standardizing existing practice." And it has never struck me as running against the spirit of C.
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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by DougGwyn on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:20PM (#22872197)
In fact I proposed strdup on a few occasions, but it wasn't adopted. It seems that they didn't like for standard library functions to use malloc. POSIX.1 specifies strdup.
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