Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux

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From: Marc Espie
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 1:30 pm

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:01:50PM +0200, Martin Toft wrote:

To be a bit more specific than Theo, don't believe idiots like Ulrich
Drepper.

There's a *reason* for strlcpy and strlcat.
strncpy and strncat are bogus. They're almost never the solution.

Accept no substitute.

On any lesser system (and that's mostly linux these days), you must ship
a copy of strlcat and strlcpy.

Fortunately the source code for these is small!

And it's free! 
nice licence! 
no obnoxious GPL!
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Trying to compile cwm on Linux, Martin Toft, (Wed Jul 23, 1:55 pm)
Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux, Martin Toft, (Thu Jul 24, 1:01 pm)
Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux , Theo de Raadt, (Thu Jul 24, 1:20 pm)
Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux, Marc Espie, (Thu Jul 24, 1:30 pm)
Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux, Pierre-Yves Ritschard, (Thu Jul 24, 1:34 pm)
Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux, Martin Toft, (Thu Jul 24, 1:35 pm)
Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux, Miod Vallat, (Thu Jul 24, 2:24 pm)
Re: Trying to compile cwm on Linux, Martin Toft, (Fri Aug 1, 1:57 am)