Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unlike gets() and the termcap functions, these functions don't need a buffer
> of arbitrary size. Only the initially specified size was too small. The
> functions would be OK to use in GNU programs if a buffer of size 100 was
> used rather than a buffer o
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According to Bruno Haible on 4/24/2006 6:12 AM:
> Paul Eggert wrote on 2006-03-10:
>> I recently redisovered the fact that asctime_r and ctime_r, like
>> asctime and ctime, are unsafe functions in the same sense that gets is
>> unsafe: they can overrun
Paul Eggert wrote on 2006-03-10:
> I recently redisovered the fact that asctime_r and ctime_r, like
> asctime and ctime, are unsafe functions in the same sense that gets is
> unsafe: they can overrun their output buffers and there's no simple
> way for the user to detect in advance whether this wil
