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).

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.

libfirestring also includes functions for dealing with
reading configuration files in an easy to program fashion."

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