Re^2: retiring gets(3)

[Ray Butterworth]

In article <4881 at boulder.Colorado.EDU>, swarbric at tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
> In article <1704 at solo9.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> :\I don't understand how you can get something like
> :\    gets(3);
> :\past a compiler. Isn't 'gets' supposed to take a char * argument,
> :\not an int literal?
> :
> :You should have crossposted to rec.humor.funny!
> 
> I don't see what's so funny about it.  It's a very legitimate question if you
> don't have much experience with UNIX.

And don't forget, this is "comp.lang.c".
I don't see anything about unix there.
There are a lot of people that use C that don't use unix.
The name(section) convention is strictly a unix documentation
convention and has nothing to do with the c language or its
documentation on other systems.