Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils: Check for strlcat/cpy and compile our private version only if it's needed.

[Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>]

Steve Dickson wrote:

  On 10/21/2010 08:01 AM, Jim Rees wrote:
  > Christoph Hellwig wrote:
  > 
  >   Not that I'd complain, but what Linux libc provides strlcat/cpy?
  > 
  > None that I know of.  The patch seems like a good idea to me, but it does
  > add a couple of ugly ifdefs to the include file.
  > 
  > There are already quite a few much sillier checks in configure.ac, like
  > memset, socket, and mkdir.
  > 
  > But I won't object if you want to drop this patch.
  I think if/when there is a need for these checks we
  can add them in then... Why add to the ugliness
  if we don't need to?  

Fine with me.  I was feeling guilty because I think I'm the one who
originally put the strlcat/cpy calls in, way back when idmapd did run on
non-linux platforms.