Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!daveb
From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v05i053: A "safe" replacement for gets()
Message-ID: <3439@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 02:31:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: geaclib.3439
References: <6508@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: GEAC Computers, Toronto, CANADA
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From article <6508@csli.STANFORD.EDU>, by gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner):
> I am wondering how long the discussion will last... The alternatives were:
[ several alternatives] 
> o  replace gets by something more intelligent
>    We arrive at fgets. The "more intelligent" will certainly mean some kind
>    of overflow checking. That's already available in fgets.

  o  replace gets with something much more intelligent.
     You hack up a copy of getline((:-)) to use a hidden
     buffer, strip \n and read from stdin.

--dave () c-b
  ps: I posted a "getline" function some months ago which just
      keeps reallocating space as it need it. This should NOT be
      a standard library function, but it could provide the means
      of transparently replacing gets.  Of course, people will then
      start depending on its implementation... Sigh.
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