On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:18:17 +0200, Bill Wendling wrote: > > strlcat() is deprecated: like strcat(), it requires re-scanning the > destination string from the beginning on every call, which is O(n^2) > when used to build up a string incrementally, and its truncation > behavior is easy to get wrong.
... but what many of your patches do is to replace strlcat() with open-codes, which is more error-prone and easier to get wrong than a single strlcat() call. > See: > > https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 It's clear that strlcat() isn't perfect and sometimes inefficient. But blindly deprecating without providing a good alternative doesn't sound like a right approach to me. thanks, Takashi
