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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v05i053: A "safe" replacement for gets()
Message-ID: <8709@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 19 Nov 88 15:23:53 GMT
References: <674@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <674@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP 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]

No, if `s' is `char *s' instead of `char s[BUFSIZ]', sizeof s == some
small number [ 2 or 4 or something like that ].

A more correct solution would be to re-write gets() to expect a buffer
of size BUFSIZ, or else have the buffer size passed as an argument.
-- 
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