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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:11800 comp.os.386bsd.development:2339 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2817 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD 1.1.5 say gets() is unsafe? Message-ID: <CtJoDs.Iwz@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <ASAMI.94Jul21184711@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> <31181v$ibk@agate.berkeley.edu> <ASAMI.94Jul25151654@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 11:10:40 GMT Lines: 12 In article <ASAMI.94Jul25151654@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI) writes: >Hmm, so how can you write a program that uses gets() and is safe? By only using it to read data that you know is of the right length (eg because you've written it, or because it's on punched cards). -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.