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From: chase@Ozona.orc.olivetti.com (David Chase)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Summary: and scanf too?
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Date: 9 Nov 88 19:07:19 GMT
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You should also consider retiring certain features of 'scanf' and
'fscanf'.  A call along the lines of

    scanf("%s", junk);

is perfectly able to scribble past the end of 'junk'.  I'm not sure if
there are other holes like this built in to the standard i/o library;
it wouldn't hurt to check.  (I've never been a real fan of 'scanf',
but it does seem marginally more useful and harder to replace than
'gets').

David