retiring gets(3)

[Wayne Mesard]

>From article <9054 at ihlpb.ATT.COM>, by gregg at ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly):
> The biggest
> concern that most people have about moving from gets to fgets is the
> added hassle of doing a 
> 
> 	if ((t = strchr (buf, '\n')) != NULL)
> 		*t = 0;
> 
> This seems to be a lot of work when you may be processing thousands of
> lines of code.

Or have this new function return a pointer to the _last_ char read,
instead of redundantly returning its first param.  This would require
exactly no extra work on the part of the library routine or the client
program.

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