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 …

Feb 23, 2021 · I have a confusion related to using puts(), gets(), putchar() and getchar() simultaneously use in the code. When I have run the below code, it is doing all steps: taking the input, printing the …

Oct 15, 2012 · The gets () function does not perform bounds checking, therefore this function is extremely vulnerable to buffer-overflow attacks. It cannot be used safely (unless the program runs in …

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.

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...

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 …

Oct 28, 2014 · gets - Reads characters from stdin and stores them as a string. scanf - Reads data from stdin and stores them according to the format specified int the scanf statement like %d, %f, %s, etc.