Ariadne Conill 🐰Mar 9

only a few places left to convert to pkgconf_buffer_t in pkgconf now :)

and then we will be able to stop using strlcpy/strlcat (which was a bad engineering decision, but i was also much younger then)

Show threadTelecaster B Bird
@ariadne out of curiosity is that a you shouldn't use strlcpy/cat generally or it's just bad in your particular case
Mar 10 at 1:18amWeb
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Mar 10
@pius strlcpy/strlcat improve upon the memory safety of strncpy/strncat, but are almost always the wrong answer to a problem.
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Mar 10
@pius the correct approach is to use pascal-style strings, where the length is tracked
Show threadTelecaster B BirdMar 10
@ariadne cool
Show threadNoisytootMar 10
@ariadne @pius I was reading the string_copying(7) man page to remind me of what the different string copying functions do, and apparently it recommends using strtcpy and stpecpy instead of strlcpy and strlcat, both of which appear to have just been made up by the authors of that man page since it also says "This function is not provided by any library; see EXAMPLES for a reference implementation."
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Mar 10
@noisytoot @pius C strings were always a mistake