Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <1988Nov19.214209.27406@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Nov14.220842.3980@utstat.uucp> <8902@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Nov16.184238.16375@utzoo.uucp> <8915@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 88 21:42:09 GMT

In article <8915@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>>Well, "utterly safe" if you're always very careful that part A of your
>>program preserves the length limits that part B is relying on...
>
>Why work harder when gets() does exactly what one needs?

What "work harder"?  It's a few more characters of typing.

>Another safe use is for small "one-shot" test programs etc...

Agreed, provided one is careful to destroy those programs after their
one shot is fired.  Such programs have a depressing tendency to persist,
and even to end up in 4BSD distributions... :-(
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