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From: evil@arcturus.UUCP (Wade Guthrie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Summary: gets is bad?
Message-ID: <2504@arcturus>
Date: 10 Nov 88 21:46:07 GMT
References: <1988Nov8.054845.23998@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Rockwell International, Anaheim, CA
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In article <1988Nov8.054845.23998@utstat.uucp>, geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
> The recent exposure of the security bug in the 4BSD fingerd caused by
> use of gets(3) reminded me that gets is a bug waiting to happen and
> should be stamped out.

gets is bad? There is a problem?  Please explain this to us unknowledgable
types before it's too late.


Wade Guthrie
Rockwell International
Anaheim, CA

(Rockwell doesn't necessarily believe / stand by what I'm saying; how could
they when *I* don't even know what I'm talking about???)