gets(3) nonsense

[Maarten Litmaath]

In article <14447 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
\In article <339 at igor.Rational.COM> dsb at Rational.COM (David S. Bakin) writes:
\>[What's going on?  The article I'm replying to was signed by Chris Torek of
\> uunet!mimsy!chris but the headers say it is from ok at quintus.uucp???]
\
\I have no idea why that happened.

It's the `virus'! (Who said it was dead? :-)

And now the real point: let's stop complaining about the gets(3) semantics of
not checking buffer boundaries; this is precisely what was intended.
Does anyone suggest doing away with strcpy() too?
Or /bin/rm, being destructive?
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