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From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
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Subject: Re: "Gets unsafe" message
In-Reply-To: <3.0b24.32.19960925135728.006857c4@central.TanSoft.COM> from Rob Miracle at "Sep 25, 96 01:57:29 pm"
To: rwm@MPGN.COM (Rob Miracle)
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According to Rob Miracle:
> First, I know that gets is inherently unsafe so ....
> 
> Is there away to prevent programs that call gets() to not print out the
> message
> about it being unsafe?
> 
> I don't mind the compliler telling me, but for the library routine to is
> not very nice.  There is a lot of code that uses gets() and uses it in a 
> fashion that 99.99% of the time is ok.
> 

	Since you've got the code, why not axe the write() in gets.c 
	and rebuild libc?

	gary kline