On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 12:32 PM Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> wrote:
>
> In message <201909011612.x81gc5dw097...@repo.freebsd.org>, Ed Maste writes:
> > Author: emaste
> > Date: Sun Sep 1 16:12:05 2019
> > New Revision: 351659
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/351659
> >
> > Log:
> > libc: remove gets
> >
> > gets is unsafe and shouldn't be used (for many years now). Leave it in
> > the existing symbol version so anything that previously linked aginst it
> > still runs, but do not allow new software to link against it.
> >
> > (The compatability/legacy implementation must not be static so that
> > the symbol and in particular the compat sym gets@FBSD_1.0 make it
> > into libc.)
> >
> > PR: 222796 (exp-run)
> > Reported by: Paul Vixie
> > Reviewed by: allanjude, cy, eadler, gnn, jhb, kib, ngie (some
> > earlie
> > r)
> > Relnotes: Yes
> > Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
> > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12298
> >
> > Modified:
> > head/contrib/libc++/include/cstdio
> > head/contrib/netbsd-tests/lib/libc/ssp/h_gets.c
> > head/gnu/lib/libssp/Makefile
> > head/include/stdio.h
> > head/lib/libc/stdio/fgets.3
> > head/lib/libc/stdio/gets.c
> > head/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3
>
> Should we encourage the use of gets_s() in the man page or in other doc?
>
> This probably requires a __FreeBSD_version bump.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com>
> FreeBSD UNIX: <c...@freebsd.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org
>
> The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
>
>
>
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