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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 15:16:54
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: edward@priam.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 25 Jul 1994 20:41:35 GMT
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edward@priam.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Wang) writes:
* >gets() really has no business being in the standard library, except it
* >is too "standard" (is it in POSIX?) that we can't take it out.
*
* It's a bit drastic, no? Fingerd.c was just badly written.
Hmm, so how can you write a program that uses gets() and is safe?
Satoshi