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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD 1.1.5 say gets() is unsafe?
Date: 25 Jul 94 19:59:04
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: edward@homer.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 26 Jul 1994 00:40:46 GMT
In article <311m2e$o33@agate.berkeley.edu>
edward@homer.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Wang) writes:
* >Hmm, so how can you write a program that uses gets() and is safe?
*
* As long as it's not setuid or run from a daemon, it's perfectly safe,
* just coredumps from time to time.
Oh, of course if a core-dumping program is your definition of "safe",
it's safe. I guess we reached an agreement here.
Satoshi