A safe scanf function

[Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>]

If I am not wrong, a safe alternate for scanf could be (relatively) easily 
written which simply uses getline and sscanf -- thereby replacing the 
original scanf function.

Why has not anyone written such a function and included it into the GNU C 
library? Myself, I may write such a function for a specific case in my 
program, but to modify the original library function I lack the know-how.

I request one of the guru-s here to do this most helpful task.

Thank you.

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