Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Karel Zak wrote: >> The result of strndup() is always zero terminated. It's more safe and >> strndup() is binary safe because it doesn't check something in input >> string. The pstrndup() is based on PostgreSQL memory managment.
> Can you find places to use this function our backend? Seems that should > be part of the patch. A bit of googling showed that strndup does appear in the "Linux standards base", but it is not to be found in the Single Unix Spec. That makes it at most quasi-standard IMHO. Like Bruce, I'd like to see a more convincing use-case before adopting not-very-standard functions. I don't think people will expect pstrndup to exist, or be very likely to use it if it's there, or necessarily know what its behavior is (for sure I was confused by the naming similarity with strncpy). That's a lot of strikes for something that replaces only three lines of C ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]