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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gets(3) nonsense
Message-ID: <6552@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 23 Nov 88 23:38:56 GMT
References: <867@cernvax.UUCP> <645@quintus.UUCP> <339@igor.Rational.COM> <6544@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <14705@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: wagner@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <14705@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <6544@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU
>(Juergen Wagner) writes:
>>printf, fprintf, et al. all use an internal buffer of finite size.
>>...
>You quote from *a* manual, not *the* manual: this bug is gone in 4.3tahoe.
>...

Hmm... but this doesn't ensure that my program is compatible if I want to
run it under different *IX flavors. Until I actually run printf with extreme
test cases, I might not know if I have the fancy or the vanilla one.

-- 
Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com