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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 12:11:56 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:57 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> I'd like to discuss ways that we could deprecate APIs more sanely. At
> present I've seen (and used) two approaches, fast and slow:

> Example: strscpy(), VLA removal

I didn't know VLAs were a kernel API ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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