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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), peter@freefall.freebsd.org,
        CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio gets.c
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J. Wunsch writes:
> 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;
>         }
>  

Whoops. Colod me red-faced.  I'll go back and slink into my corner.


Nate