Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Emgergency release of tla-1.2.1pre1

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:

>     > It would be  better to copy only `n - 1' real characters in the case of an
>     > overflow, so that the final `\0' makes `n'.
>
> That just shifts around the bugs and resulting exploits.  There is no
> such thing as safe, easy-to-use, non-allocating string-algebra
> primitives.

The current interface is a surprising one, as noted in the warning. 
People like me don't read the inline hackerlab docs to find these things 
out.  I'd rather have hackerlab as POSIX-with-all-the-warts than have to 
look up every function because it may differ from POSIX.

Aaron