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Re: [fetchmail][PATCH] general cleanup and anti-format-string patch

2001-06-24 06:51:00
Todd Sabin <tas(_at_)webspan(_dot_)net>:
Your usage of strncat is wrong.  Don't feel bad, though; nearly
everyone misuses it the same way.  strncat is one of the worst
designed apis in existence.  I'd suggest not using it at all.

Are you planning to send a patch to address this claim?

Speaking of the trouble of doing string manipulation properly in C,
one of the messages a bit ago was mentioning python and almost sounded
like fetchmail might be rewritten it in.  Any hope of that being true?

I'm toying with the idea.
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