On Oct 26,  9:57am, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: syslog_r (Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc)

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| On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
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| > The ssp library.
| 
| ...and it's a good idea to the use OpenBSD ssp library because.....?
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| I think the one that comes with GCC is just fine, and it seems as  
| though it is no worse than linking with libgcc, which we already allow  
| (require, really).

There is very little work involved to write and maintain a BSD-licensed
libssp.  I don't particularly like some of the implementation
choices of the GNU libssp:

1. the unrolling code in the string functions makes the code
   unnecessarily complex.
2. It calls syslog(3) if opening /dev/tty fails.

christos