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[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:24:15AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <dev-null at NUXI.com> writes:
> > No we shouldn't.  If I understand you correctly, it prevents me from
> > linking in my own malloc()/free() and having the entire system use it.
> > Being able to replace the use of a libc function for *all* running of a
> > program is a very useful thing.
> 
> Except when you replace it with a broken implementation, like qpopper
> does with strlcpy()...

That's why we have /usr/ports -- to fix such things at the source.