Comment by sillywalk
2 years ago
-edit- I'm not a C programmer, nor do I have any opinion on whether api is garbage or less worse or whatever.
They seemed useful enough to get added to the other BSDs, Solaris, Mac OS X, Irix(!), QNX, and Cygwin as well as used in the Linux kernel.
Distributing clean needles is useful, yes, but you should still lament why it is necessary.
The Linux kernel has better options, notably strscpy.