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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <4292@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 23 Nov 88 21:08:04 GMT
References: <1988Nov14.220842.3980@utstat.uucp> <8902@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8959@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1606@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
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In article <1606@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
+ Almost all of them have a
+
+#ifdef DEBUG_MAIN
+main() {
+  .
+  .
+}
+#endif DEBUG_MAIN
+
+built into them for stand-alone debugging. ...  It does not make any
+sense to worry about safe gets, coz' this part of the code is never going to
+be used by anybody for purposes other than testing. Quick and easy is the way
+to go.

Um, er, wasn't it a debug part of sendmail that had it's security hole that
many people compiled in anyway?
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