'gets' problem

[Volker Borchert]

In article < 37FA55AE.98D1B6C5@crosswinds.net >, mscdex <mscdex@crosswinds.net> writes:

|> "the 'gets' function is dangerous and it should not be used".

|> Can anyone help and say me what's wrong with the function??

>From the manpage:

     The gets() function reads characters from the standard input
     stream  (see  intro(3)), stdin, into the array pointed to by
     s, until a newline character is read or an end-of-file  con-
     dition  is  encountered.  The newline character is discarded
     and the string is terminated with a null character.

Can you spell "buffer overflow"? If not, go to
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/library_category.html?category=29&path=[%20buffer%20overflows%20 ]

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