From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 23 14:46:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA02623 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 14:46:51 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA02609 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 14:46:46 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA20853; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:46:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA18151; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:46:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA26046; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:45:35 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509232145.XAA26046@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: runtime warnings To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:45:34 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9509232113.AA07376@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Sep 23, 95 05:13:43 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 628 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As James Leppek wrote: > > 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". It has been discussed before. The only way to convince people replacing dangerous functions (like gets()) is to annoy them. If you don't have the source, bug the author... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)