From 7f3caba522f4d24764f29d83aa2de9198bb7f01c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 06:52:22 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.8. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man3/gets.3 | 107 ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 107 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 man3/gets.3 (limited to 'man3/gets.3') diff --git a/man3/gets.3 b/man3/gets.3 deleted file mode 100644 index e0cb43b..0000000 --- a/man3/gets.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,107 +0,0 @@ -'\" t -.\" Copyright (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.\" Modified Wed Jul 28 11:12:07 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" Modified Fri Sep 8 15:48:13 1995 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) -.\" Modified 2013-12-31, David Malcolm -.\" Split gets(3) into its own page; fgetc() et al. move to fgetc(3) -.TH gets 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -gets \- get a string from standard input (DEPRECATED) -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include -.P -.BI "[[deprecated]] char *gets(char *" "s" ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.IR "Never use this function" . -.P -.BR gets () -reads a line from -.I stdin -into the buffer pointed to by -.I s -until either a terminating newline or -.BR EOF , -which it replaces with a null byte (\[aq]\e0\[aq]). -No check for buffer overrun is performed (see BUGS below). -.SH RETURN VALUE -.BR gets () -returns -.I s -on success, and NULL -on error or when end of file occurs while no characters have been read. -However, given the lack of buffer overrun checking, there can be no -guarantees that the function will even return. -.SH ATTRIBUTES -For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see -.BR attributes (7). -.TS -allbox; -lbx lb lb -l l l. -Interface Attribute Value -T{ -.na -.nh -.BR gets () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe -.TE -.SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2008. -.SH HISTORY -C89, POSIX.1-2001. -.P -LSB deprecates -.BR gets (). -POSIX.1-2008 marks -.BR gets () -obsolescent. -ISO C11 removes the specification of -.BR gets () -from the C language, and since glibc 2.16, -glibc header files don't expose the function declaration if the -.B _ISOC11_SOURCE -feature test macro is defined. -.SH BUGS -Never use -.BR gets (). -Because it is impossible to tell without knowing the data in advance how many -characters -.BR gets () -will read, and because -.BR gets () -will continue to store characters past the end of the buffer, -it is extremely dangerous to use. -It has been used to break computer security. -Use -.BR fgets () -instead. -.P -For more information, see CWE-242 (aka "Use of Inherently Dangerous -Function") at -http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/242.html -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR read (2), -.BR write (2), -.BR ferror (3), -.BR fgetc (3), -.BR fgets (3), -.BR fgetwc (3), -.BR fgetws (3), -.BR fopen (3), -.BR fread (3), -.BR fseek (3), -.BR getline (3), -.BR getwchar (3), -.BR puts (3), -.BR scanf (3), -.BR ungetwc (3), -.BR unlocked_stdio (3), -.BR feature_test_macros (7) -- cgit v1.2.3