From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help: need to prevent infinite loop
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:54:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601182154.36474.samjnaa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CC996D.4050100@ajp-services.net>
Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:44 samaye, Jesse Ruffin alekhiit:
> This inelegant, but satisfactory, method fixes the problem:
> fgets(buf,12,stdin);
Thanks for your reply and sorry for the delay in mine.
The suggestion to use fgets reminded me of this gcc-generated warning with
gets:
samjnaa@linux:~/bin/learning> gcc -Wall -o gets gets.c
/tmp/ccA8bxgm.o: In function `main':
gets.c:(.text+0x25): warning: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not
be used.
Though I did not get such a warning with fgets, I wonder why this function is
considered dangerous. Could the same problem perhaps apply to fgets too and
gcc doesn't inform me of it?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-18 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-17 4:36 Help: need to prevent infinite loop Shriramana Sharma
2006-01-17 7:14 ` Jesse Ruffin
2006-01-18 16:24 ` Shriramana Sharma [this message]
2006-01-18 16:33 ` Steve Graegert
2006-01-22 10:20 ` Glynn Clements
2006-01-22 11:28 ` Jesse Ruffin
2006-01-23 5:57 ` Jesse Ruffin
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