On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Niall Smart wrote: > The problem, as the original poster says, is that exercising option > 3 is currently too difficult. The ANSI C string handling functions > are simply error prone. With this in mind I begin about a month > ago on a project to create a string handling library which makes > buffer management significantly easier, while still maintaining an > acceptable level of efficiency and supporting common C programming > idioms. There are other interfaces, such as file access which are > also error prone to a degree which I am also looking at. I haven't > had the time to spend as much time on this project as I would have > liked but I should get it released before the end of the summer at > which time I'll post an announcement here. The code will be under > a BSD style copyright. Dan Bernstein, who wrote qmail, has already done all of this. He might be persuaded to let others use his library under a BSD-style copyright. qmail uses no standard C library functions, other than syscalls, if I remember correctly. Kragen
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