libc.so gets() warning on FreeBSD

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:24:16AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:14:32AM +0900, User for GRASS wrote:
> > GRASS 4.2 uses gets() function, which is unsafe, many times and
> > libc.so warns this every gets() call. There are so many garbage output.
> > You should rebuild standard c library.
> 
> Isn't there a library that GRASS uses that you could define a replacement
> gets() in that uses fgets() instead?  Changing libc seems brutal.

Hi all,

using GRASS 4.x with gets obviously does not cause problems
(beside the compile warnings).

Side note: GRASS 5 does not use gets() but fgets(). It was heavily
upgraded the last month by many contributors.

Best wishes

 Markus