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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!trantor.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: nn Message-ID: <1993Jul16.220639.979@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <226q88INN56k@xs4all.hacktic.nl> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 22:06:39 GMT Lines: 19 In article <226q88INN56k@xs4all.hacktic.nl> cor@hacktic.nl (Cor) writes: >I tracked this to the gets() function in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/gets.c >which prints this message to stderr. >This is kinda...no..really annoying. I guess what happens is.. >when nn tries to post the message using nntp, it checks stderr >notices the message (coming from gets(), not inn or nn itself!!) gets() doesn't run in a vacuum---it msut be a part of some program! The error message is a very strong hint to the installer that the program emitting it is broken and needs to be fixed to use a safe string-read routine, like fgetline() or fgets(). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant