[TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: Happy birthday Morris worm
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Nov 22 06:02:03 AEST 2019
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, Tony Finch wrote:
> Amusingly POSIX says the C standard takes precedence wrt the details of
> gets() (and other library functions) and C18 abolished gets(). I'm
> slightly surprised that the POSIX committee didn't see that coming and
> include the change in the 2018 edition...
Didn't know that gets() had finally been abolished; it's possibly the most
unsafe function (OK, macro) on the planet. I've long been tempted to
remove gets() and see what breaks...
-- Dave
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