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Diffstat (limited to 'misc/firestring/pkg-descr')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/misc/firestring/pkg-descr b/misc/firestring/pkg-descr index af5cb9ebc86f..742bb09f83b9 100644 --- a/misc/firestring/pkg-descr +++ b/misc/firestring/pkg-descr @@ -1,24 +1,22 @@ From libfirestring(3): "libfirestring is a string handling library that provides -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). +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 ANSI C, enabling +programmers to write ANSI C-compliant code while using such +safe functions (strcasecmp, strncasecmp, snprintf). 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. +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." -WWW: http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ian/ +WWW: http://firestuff.org/ - Dean |