Dec 3, 2010 · The Early Bug gets () the Internet Worm The problems in C are not confined to just the language. Some routines in the standard library have unsafe semantics. This was dramatically …

Why is gets() dangerous The first internet worm (the Morris Internet Worm) escaped about 30 years ago (1988-11-02), and it used gets() and a buffer overflow as one of its methods of propagating from …

Jul 10, 2015 · Yes, you want to avoid gets. fgets will always read the new-line if the buffer was big enough to hold it (which lets you know when the buffer was too small and there's more of the line …

Jun 20, 2025 · 2 Why was the gets function removed instead of just changing its signature? At least in part because removing gets() from the language specification does not mean that implementations …

Nov 20, 2022 · Take a look at gets() reference Get string from stdin Reads characters from the standard input (stdin) and stores them as a C string into str until a newline character or the end-of-file is …

I learned that gets creates a new line and asks the user to input something, and gets.chomp does the same thing except that it does not create a new line. gets must return an object, so you can cal...

I am using the function gets () in my C code. My code is working fine but I am getting a warning message (.text+0xe6): warning: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used.

Aug 29, 2015 · I have faced a compiler error(c3861) in my newly installed Visual studio community 2015 IDE: I just want to use gets() function from stdio.h library, and i have included stdio.h file in my progra...

Oct 1, 2009 · I have a program written in C and it calls gets() from a switch when a user chooses the option of 3. Here is my code. It does not seem to wait to wait for the user to input something. Rather …

Aug 7, 2015 · The reads could have been satisfied either from memory (the buffers) or have resulted in a physical IO. Since physical IO is so expensive (compared to memory or CPU) one approach to …