At 1:33 -0500 10/11/03, Steve Milner wrote: The other night I was perusing through some of the kernel source when I noticed strcat and strcpy is used quite a bit in kernel. I also notices string.h didn't have an definition for strl*. Why are strl* functions not in the kernel but are in the provided C library? The kernel does not implement the standard C library. Rather, specific standard C library routines are implemented for use in kernel. This duplication tends to occur on a case-by-case basis, as routines are needed. strlcpy/cat are relatively new routines, and so this hasn't happened for them yet. Apple is in the process of nailing down the binary compatibility story for the BSD parts of the kernel (the Kernel Programming Interfaces effort we introduced at WWDC 2003). Feedback from developers about missing routines is an important part of that effort. I'm sure you could make an argument that access to these routines is even more important for kernel code than for user space code. You should feel free to file a bug to request them to be included in the KPI. <http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/> S+E -- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/> Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.