Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > This logic makes no sense though in the larger context. Using this idea
> > then gets() should have simply been removed as well from the library years
> > ago as it's abuse can cause system compromises. 
> 
> Yes, it should have.  

Agreed. Using gets() can never be safe. Standardizing this lousy
function was one of serious mistakes of ANSI C.

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
@@@@  Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, damn!  @@@@