On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 at 15:08, Bruce Richardson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Glibc added the strlcpy and strlcat functions to version 2.38, released
> in 2023, meaning they are natively available in modern linux distros. At
> this point, the value of having the libbsd provided versions of these
> functions is reduced, so let's simplify the code options here by
> providing just two options for strlcpy rather than three:
>
> 1. native implementation for BSD and recent Linux
> 2. DPDK-specific fallbacks using snprintf
>
> Since the strlcpy and strlcat functions are the only two items used from
> libbsd, we can then drop completely any DPDK dependency on libbsd.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
>
> ---
> V2:
> * took the work further than v1, dropping libbsd dependency entirely.
> Now DPDK just supports native strlcpy or it's own fallback version.
We still have some references:
$ git grep -i libbsd
.github/workflows/build.yml: libbsd-dev \
.github/workflows/build.yml: libbsd-devel \
devtools/process-iwyu.py:def uses_libbsd(builddir):
devtools/process-iwyu.py: "return whether the build uses libbsd or not"
devtools/process-iwyu.py: return bool(get_build_config(builddir,
lambda ln: 'RTE_USE_LIBBSD' in ln))
devtools/process-iwyu.py: keep_str_fns = uses_libbsd(build_dir) #
check for libbsd
devtools/process-iwyu.py: print("Warning: libbsd is present,
build will fail to detect incorrect removal of rte_string_fns.h",
doc/guides/howto/af_xdp_dp.rst: libbsd-devel \
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David Marchand
