Talk:Strlcpy

Article name

Since strlcpy and strlcat are usually very closely associated, maybe the article should be renamed to "strlcpy and strlcat", and discuss both? --Piet Delport 17:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My vote would be for separate pages. Aside from anything else "x and y" article titles are almost guaranteed to be aliased wherever they are used. AlistairMcMillan 17:12, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

("Aliased"?)

How much would two separate articles actually differ from each other, though? --Piet Delport 18:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Wikipedia:Piped link, don't know where I got aliased from. So what is wrong with the current situation where strlcat redirects to strlcpy, which explains how strlcpy works and says strlcat works in the same way. What else would a page called strlcpy and strlcat" say? AlistairMcMillan 18:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, i had in mind something like the setjmp/longjmp article. In other words, not a major change, just something that treats the two more evenly, instead of hiding strlcat near the end. --Piet Delport 19:37, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Linus' criticism

I don't see how Linus pointing out that a particular chunk of code that uses strlcpy in a stupid way that doesn't solve the security problem is actually a criticism of strlcpy itself, so I'm removing the link. -- Steven Fisher 23:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]