retiring gets(3)

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <8841 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>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.

With gets() and strcpy() a safe alternative exists.  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?

Les Mikesell