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From: snafu@ihlpm.ATT.COM (00704a-Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <2566@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 88 18:38:06 GMT
References: <1988Nov8.054845.23998@utstat.uucp> <8841@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: AT&T Network Systems, Inc., Naperville Il.
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In article <8841@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
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> By the way, have you removed scanf() from your C library as well?  Or
> sprintf()?  Or strcpy()?  They can be misused in the same way as gets().
> Let us know how happy your customers are once ALL such routines are gone.
> 
....

Actually, I don't understand the argument that
gets() should be removed because it can overrun
the buffer. What's to prevent the following (and
how is it different from gets?):

	char	some_string[10];

	fgets( some_string, 2147483647, stdin );


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Dave Wallis
AT&T Network Systems
Lisle, IL 60532

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