Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th May 2009 17:41 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Via LWN, we found a blog post of a Debian maintainer which announces a new package: EGLIBC, a compatible reimplementation of the GNU glibc which "which will soon replace the GNU C Library". Apparently the primary reason is the sadly famous bad maintainership aptitude of Ulrich Drepper, the main libc maintainer.
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2006-01-11
While it might be a good idea to put these functions in, because so many want them, I think that they are overrated: they can avoid certain classes of errors, but in many cases string truncation is an error, period, and the real flaw is the use of fixed-length buffers.