Comment by thomashabets2
2 years ago
Well, he does actually have a point. strlcpy is a faster (well, safer) horse than strncpy, but it's still a horse. We should not use horses as the main mode of transport anymore.
"Doctor, it hurts when I strcpy — so don't do that".
He's being a jerk about it, but I would not say that he doesn't have a point.
Merely "having a point" is not "a reason for his abusiveness". I think I "have a point" for almost any HN comment I post (or at least, I'd like to think so) and have just as much "reason" to be a jerk as Drepper had. This applies to most posts on HN.
Ah, true. I think I cross-read comments here. Sorry.