gets(3) nonsense

Juergen Wagner gandalf at csli.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Nov 24 09:38:56 AEST 1988


In article <14705 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <6544 at csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf at csli.STANFORD.EDU
>(Juergen Wagner) writes:
>>printf, fprintf, et al. all use an internal buffer of finite size.
>>...
>You quote from *a* manual, not *the* manual: this bug is gone in 4.3tahoe.
>...

Hmm... but this doesn't ensure that my program is compatible if I want to
run it under different *IX flavors. Until I actually run printf with extreme
test cases, I might not know if I have the fancy or the vanilla one.

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Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf at csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner at arisia.xerox.com



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