Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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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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