On Sat 30 Oct 2004 19:42, "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri 29 Oct 2004 04:58, Steve Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure if it was on IRC or the mailing-list, but I know there had been > > some discussions previously to add detection of strlcat() and strlcpy() the > > list of C functions detected by Configure. For those who aren't familiar, > > strlcat() and strlcpy() are a safer version of strncat() and strncpy() (see > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/strlcat.3.html > > > > for details on their functionality). These functions are implemented, as far > > as I know, in the various BSDs, Mac OS X, and Cygwin. > > Part 1 (#23434) - the metaconfig units, > Part 2 (#23435) - Configure and friends, and > Part 3 (#23436) - non-standard OS's I > > have been done. > > Since I don't know what VMS actually has, and configure.com doesn't have > commented out lines, I'd like to know what to do for that > > Part 4 - epoc, and djgpp, and > Part 5 - Porting/*
Part 5 is now also done (#23450, #23455 and #23457) I'd still would muchly appreciate some comments on my VMS question > will follow later > > > Adding this detection to Configure will make it easier for module writers to > > determine whether these functions are available and allow them to use them > > rather than relying solely on strncat() and strncpy(). > > > > Attached are the patches to implement this. Comments are welcomed! -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.5, & 5.9.x, and 809 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, AIX 5.2, SuSE 9.1, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
