> Agreed. Using gets() can never be safe. 

False, there is no requirement that stdin must be used only for unsafe
(nonvalidated) data.  My_process1 | my_process2 etc.

> Standardizing this lousy
> function was one of serious mistakes of ANSI C.

Standardizing of crash_computer() would be serious mistake, but gets()
is not a problem. Nobody is forced to use it and it can't do anything
that could not be done without gets().

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
Ustav vypocetni techniky Masarykovy univerzity, Brno
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