On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:09:31 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> > CONFIGURE_ENV= ac_cv_header_db_h=no \
>
> Out of interest, is that steering configure to not probe for db.h and
> move on to another? Anything nmh should be doing better to avoid the
> need for this and work bette
On 31 Jan 2018 13:48:51 -0700, "Andy Bradford" wrote:
> So it's interesting that even though I have libiconv installed, when I
> build as indicated, I don't get iconv support linked in, but somehow the
> port did (perhaps due to the LIB_DEPENDS) as mentioned previously.
The OpenBSD C compiler d
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:10:46 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Yes, asprintf(3) is very handy. Unfortunately, it's not standardised; C
> nor POSIX. And rolling your own version around vsnprintf(3) can mean
> doing the formatting twice; the first time to get the length. You've
> then a malloc'd po
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:40:36 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> In other words - if the source string doesn't fit, it will create
> a non-NULL-terminated destination string for you. Repeat that,
> slowly, until it sinks in.
It says nothing of the sort, please re-read the manual. The source
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:59:10 -, P Vixie wrote:
> I don't know what gcc or clang command line option to use to require this.
If you declare the function with gcc's warn_unused_result attribute
the compiler will warn when you don't check the result.
For example:
size_t strlcpy(char *dst,
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:59:36 -, P Vixie wrote:
> Copy or die, as the default behavior.
>
> Silent truncation should require explicit coding.
>
> Strlcpy is completely bogus.
Both snprintf() and strlcpy() make it fairly easy to detect whe the
buffer was too small, which is more than I can sa
On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:34:04 -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
> my gripe with strlcat, strlcpy, and similar is silent truncation. the
> openbsd team once sent me a huge block of diffs for bind8, altering
> every strcpy to strlcpy, and so on. i rejected it, since silent
> truncation is no less wrong than o
