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author | Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-11-15 22:52:30 +0000 |
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committer | Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-11-15 22:52:30 +0000 |
commit | 97b9561099322a8ce79751eb6d3bcbf45147b728 (patch) | |
tree | 41cc81c0d9d8a367805e1c562a904151c842e9d2 /misc/firestring/pkg-descr | |
parent | cdbd4b39db297fced3265de995cee1d1463e85cd (diff) | |
download | freebsd-ports-97b9561099322a8ce79751eb6d3bcbf45147b728.zip |
Commited patch, thank you!
PR: 45235
Submitted by: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc/firestring/pkg-descr')
-rw-r--r-- | misc/firestring/pkg-descr | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/misc/firestring/pkg-descr b/misc/firestring/pkg-descr index 01a41c189b30..af5cb9ebc86f 100644 --- a/misc/firestring/pkg-descr +++ b/misc/firestring/pkg-descr @@ -1,14 +1,21 @@ From libfirestring(3): "libfirestring is a string handling library that provides -maximum length aware string handling functions to programs. -Several functions provide saner interfaces than the standard -libc functions. libfirestring also provides functions that -are in most libc's but not provided for by POSIX, enabling -programmers to write POSIX-compliant code while using such -safe functions (strcasecmp, strncasecmp, snprintf)." +maximum length aware string handling functions to pro- +grams. Several functions provide saner interfaces than +the standard libc functions. libfirestring also provides +functions that are in most libc's but not provided for by +ANSI C, enabling programmers to write ANSI C-compliant +code while using such safe functions (strcasecmp, strn- +casecmp, snprintf). -"libfirestring also includes functions for dealing with +libfirestring provides a set of functions for dealing with +EStrings. EStrings are binary-safe objects that, when +used with the firestring functions, are overflow safe, +because they include allocated memory size information +with them. + +libfirestring also includes functions for dealing with reading configuration files in an easy to program fashion." WWW: http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ian/ |