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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!atria.com!jtk From: jtk@atria.com (John Kohl) Subject: Re: gets() warning? In-Reply-To: perry@jpunix.com's message of 14 Oct 1994 12:11:06 -0500 Message-ID: <CxoF09.Et4@atria.com> Sender: news@atria.com Nntp-Posting-Host: banana.atria.com Organization: Atria Software, Inc. References: <37me3a$efl@jpunix.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 18:50:32 GMT Lines: 21 >>>>> "JP" == John A Perry <perry@jpunix.com> writes: In article <37me3a$efl@jpunix.com> perry@jpunix.com (John A. Perry) writes: JP> I have several applications that use the gets() function. I'm sure JP> as everyone is aware, every time gets is called, it displays an error JP> message "warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe." After seeing JP> it literally hundreds of times, I'm getting tired of seeing it and it JP> makes the application look tacky. Is there anyway to suppress this JP> message? Assuming you're using some version of NetBSD-current, you should compile/fetch an updated C library (and probably also the compiler suite). Recent NetBSD-current systems will spit out the warning at program link time, and not at program runtime. -- John Kohl <jtk@atria.com> or <jtkohl@mit.edu> working for but not representing: Atria Software --------- What are you pretending not to know?