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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@jhome.DIALix.COM
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tftp main.c
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>Perhaps the safest "fix" may be to shove a simple replacement for gets()
>into libc or libutil with a similar interface that we can use to take 
>care of this sort of thing. We can edit our sources to change
> gets(line);
>to
> __ngets(line, sizeof(line));

I think the replacement should be something like

	int fgets_DWIM(same args as fgets);

which reads to the next newline (if any) and discards the newline and
discards any data that doesn't fit.

Bruce