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From: randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: v05i053: A "safe" replacement for gets()
Summary: Oops...
Message-ID: <117@halcdc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 17:26:27 GMT
References: <674@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison)
Organization: Control Data in the Hills of Arden, Minnesota
Lines: 26

In article <674@quintus.UUCP> Brandon Allbury writes:
|[Aaaaagh.  I always suspected gets() was a potential bomb.  How about
|
|#define gets(s) fgets(s, sizeof s, stdin)
|
|as a quick fix?  ++bsa]

{
	char *s;

	s = malloc (80);

	gets (s);
}

Two problems: the space after gets would kill it if it's a macro, and
sizeof (s) != 80 (on most machines).  Which means that you'd have to
examine your code to make sure the macro would work, and fix it if
not, so why not just fix it to use fgets?

	-randy
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