So was Drepper wrong? Did he just get worn down? Or did it not involve him at all?
It’s rather that POSIX decided to add the strl functions, so adding them (and verifying their semantics) is a necessity.
That is very much Drepper’s position:
> Correct string handling means that you always know how long your strings are and therefore you can you memcpy (instead of strcpy).
> Beside, those who are using strcat or variants deserved to be punished.