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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!hacktic!not-for-mail From: cor@hacktic.nl (Cor) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Using gets() [ Was Re: nn ] Date: 25 Jul 1993 16:55:36 +0200 Organization: Hack-Tic, networking for the masses Lines: 21 Message-ID: <22u6tmINN2t6@xs4all.hacktic.nl> References: <OLEG.93Jul17185604@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> <1993Jul19.005949.28286@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> <CAKu2r.10rt@austin.ibm.com> <CAq222.8E4@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: xs4all.hacktic.nl peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <CAKu2r.10rt@austin.ibm.com> boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com writes: >> I will not debate whether the function is a good one or not. However, >> since it is included for the sake of compatibility, I would argue that >> it should be distributed in a fashion that allows its use. >I agree. gets should work as documented, but it should probably be stuck >in an "obsolete" library, to be linked in as "-lobso" for programs that >use broken functions. Stick strtok in there as well :>. Phew, at least *some* people that agree with my original posting. My whole argument was that I didnt like gets() putting anything on stderr, cause it causes things to fail (like in this example, nn) We all know gets() isnt safe, that wasnt the issue. cor -- | cor@hacktic.nl | Hack-Tic System Management | +31-20-6001480-3 (VMB) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ######### Signature Virus Running. Contamination Complete ######### | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+