On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 07:45:30PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2026-02-28, Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Fed up with swapping out strchrnul() for some wild concoction of other
> > string
> > functions when porting code from other systems?
>
> not sure where the bar is for committing something to libc, but we do
> have a handful of patches for this in ports..
Well, I strongly suspect that it will eventually become part of a future POSIX
standard anyway, at which point presumably OpenBSD will want it.
Problem is, the lack of support in OpenBSD might be holding up that
standardisation.
In a private discussion (*) with Alejandro Colomar, (cc'ed), for example:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 09:00:19PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Thanks a lot! I hope to see this function eventually added to OpenBSD!
> If/when that happens, I'll open a request to standardize it in POSIX.
(*) I don't make a habbit of quoting private mail to a public list, but I took
the trouble to OK this quote with Alejando first.
