Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:41:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: peter@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio gets.c Message-ID: <199510042241.XAA04988@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510041853.MAA04484@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 4, 95 12:53:54 pm
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As Nate Williams wrote:
>
> ... If you also want to take some more
> inspiration from NetBSD, add a static variable to the sources so the
> warning is printed at run-time only once. It is still annoying, but not
> continually annoying.
huh? This has been there all the time:
static int warned;
static char w[] =
"warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe.\r\n";
if (!warned) {
(void) write(STDERR_FILENO, w, sizeof(w) - 1);
warned = 1;
}
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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