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

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Warner Losh wrote:

> A few things actually broke when FreeBSD removed it. Apart from 
> 'wrappers' that needed it for various reasons, it was only a few 
> programs in our 'ports' package that needed to be corrected.

FreeBSD prints a stern warning (both at compilation and execution) if you 
use it; I quickly fixed all my programs when I saw them :-)

> Most people have moved on with the 20 years of warnings when it was 
> used... Sadly only most...

Yep :-(

-- Dave