Safe coding practices (was Re: Bug in users command)

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to schwartz at groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz):
>Happily, Chris Torek's new 4.4BSD stdio provides a way to
>read lines of any length using ``fgetline''.

BSD isn't the world; fixing 4.4BSD won't help me.

Each site (or programmer) needs to write fgetline() or its moral
equivalent using getc(), malloc() and realloc(), and use it every time
gets() or fgets() would have been used.
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Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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