retiring gets(3)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <6927 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>... Is everyone really
>going to write their own safe versions of scanf() and sprintf()?  I always
>wondered why the standard library versions have no way to control the
>size of the output - maybe real programers like core dumps?

ANSI C came within a hairsbreadth of including a length-limited sprintf.
(There are length-limiting provisions in scanf, if you read the manual.)
If there had been any prior experience with it, it probably would have
made it.  Sigh.
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