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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 1995 18:07:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
To:        James Leppek <jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: runtime warnings
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950924180625.1770C-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9509232113.AA07376@borg.ess.harris.com>

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On Sat, 23 Sep 1995, James Leppek wrote:

> This may have come up before but what is the purpose of
> having runtime warnings for things like gets. Compile time warnings
> I can understand, but runtime??? I give someone the latest gnuchess
> and everytime they start it, up pops this warning about gets being
> unsafe. To most folks that means "don't run this program, it's broken".

As a local security guy, I would agree with "most folks'" assessment 
there. :)

Marc.



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