On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:02:05PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > But I am not sure about this change. xmalloc.c came from ssh (and is > > also used by file and diff). Would it be better to keep it in sync? How > > portable is strdup? > > strdup is extremely portable. > > The last mainstream operating system which lacked it was Ultrix. > So you could call it 100.00% portable. >
Since there is no portable version of openRCS is it that necessary to focus on portability? Functions like explicit_bzero(3) are not portable either, but used widely. Or is it more to find a balance between the usage of internal function, but make the tool not that hard to port to other systems? Regards, --F.
