retiring gets(3)

[00704a-Wallis]

In article <8841 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
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> By the way, have you removed scanf() from your C library as well?  Or
> sprintf()?  Or strcpy()?  They can be misused in the same way as gets().
> Let us know how happy your customers are once ALL such routines are gone.
> 
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Actually, I don't understand the argument that
gets() should be removed because it can overrun
the buffer. What's to prevent the following (and
how is it different from gets?):

	char	some_string[10];

	fgets( some_string, 2147483647, stdin );


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Dave Wallis
AT&T Network Systems
Lisle, IL 60532

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