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From: awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris)
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Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
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Date: 13 Nov 88 20:32:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 11 Nov 88 20:34:00 GMT

I was going to suggest the following as a replacement for "gets":

	#define gets(buf) fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin)

since all the examples I've seen of "gets" in use have been:

	char buf[10];
	...
	gets(buf);

But of course it won't work, (a) gets drops the newline at the end, fgets
keeps it, and (b) maybe someone, has written:

	char *buf;
	buf = malloc(10);
	gets(buf);

(although the #define would be fine in this case, it would read only 4
characters :-)

I guess there isn't an easy answer :-(  (but you didn't need me to tell you
that)

Aled Morris
systems programmer

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