From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:55:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aZobaC_UCI7CYkcZ@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260221200509.vxfbyyg7v2d2svhb@illithid>
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Hi Branden,
On 2026-02-21T14:05:09-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I assume that the string library reforms you're pursuing are
> > > intended in part to be adopted by newcomers to C.
> >
> > I intend old programmers to use it too.
>
> Goooooood luck. As we've seen, to take gets(3) away from some people
> has required killing it off from the standard C library itself.
>
> Some old programmers get really good. Some just get old.
>
> > I guess you're expecting a patch to groff once this is in a branch of
> > gnulib you're using. ;)
>
> No, not expecting. :)
Well, now you know. :)
>
> Replacing our bespoke `strsave()` with `strdup()` seems like a higher
> priority to me.
Will you, or should I?
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66518
>
> Regards,
> Branden
Cheers,
Alex
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-21 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-21 15:02 [PATCH v1 0/1] Document strnul(3) Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:02 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 17:41 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-02-21 19:56 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:02 ` Simon Josefsson
2026-02-21 20:45 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:05 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-02-21 20:55 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2026-02-22 1:48 ` Paul Eggert
2026-02-22 11:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 13:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 14:10 ` Bruno Haible
2026-02-22 14:19 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 14:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:04 ` [PATCH v1 0/1] Document strnul(3) Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 " Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page Alejandro Colomar
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