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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:11803 comp.os.386bsd.development:2340 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD 1.1.5 say gets() is unsafe? Date: 26 Jul 1994 20:21:23 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 16 Message-ID: <313r83$gm7@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <30lrf3$2ii@acmez.gatech.edu> <311m2e$o33@agate.berkeley.edu> <311uec$4cm@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <312c67$1ae@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <312c67$1ae@agate.berkeley.edu>, Edward Wang <edward@priam.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >Sometimes incorrect, or usually correct, which is the best we can say >about any program. The way we define correctness here, a program which crashes if you give it unexpected input is always incorrect. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant