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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:11795 comp.os.386bsd.development:2336 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2812 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!homer.CS.Berkeley.EDU!edward From: edward@homer.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Wang) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD 1.1.5 say gets() is unsafe? Date: 26 Jul 1994 00:40:46 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 8 Message-ID: <311m2e$o33@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <30lrf3$2ii@acmez.gatech.edu> <ASAMI.94Jul21184711@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> <31181v$ibk@agate.berkeley.edu> <ASAMI.94Jul25151654@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: homer.cs.berkeley.edu Cc: In article <ASAMI.94Jul25151654@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu>, Satoshi ASAMI <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: >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. I think this is enough on gets().