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authorEdwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-15 22:52:30 +0000
committerEdwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-15 22:52:30 +0000
commit97b9561099322a8ce79751eb6d3bcbf45147b728 (patch)
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parentcdbd4b39db297fced3265de995cee1d1463e85cd (diff)
downloadfreebsd-ports-97b9561099322a8ce79751eb6d3bcbf45147b728.zip
Commited patch, thank you!
PR: 45235 Submitted by: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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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."
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