[TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: Happy birthday Morris worm

[Dave Horsfall]

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