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From: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in gets function?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:39:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <419e95bb3a69fa0990e56996e198355f@ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190212163027.GK23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On 2019-02-12 19:30, Rich Felker wrote:
> Here's an alternate proposal via direct implementation:
> 
> char *gets(char *s)
> {
> 	size_t i=0;
> 	int c;
> 	FLOCK(stdin);
> 	while ((c=getc_unlocked(stdin)) != EOF && c != '\n') s[i++] = c;
> 	s[i] = 0;
> 	if (c != '\n' && !feof(stdin)) s = 0;
> 	FUNLOCK(stdin);
> 	return s;
> }
> 
> Does this look ok? Of course it's slow compared to a fgets-like
> operation on the buffer, but gets is not a usable interface and I
> don't see any reason to care whether it's fast.
> 
gets() must also return NULL if EOF is reached and no bytes were read.

Alexey



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-12  2:55 Keyhan Vakil
2019-02-12  3:48 ` Rich Felker
2019-02-12  3:51   ` Rich Felker
2019-02-12 14:41     ` James Larrowe
2019-02-12 14:55       ` Ponnuvel Palaniyappan
2019-02-12 16:30         ` Rich Felker
2019-02-13 21:39           ` Alexey Izbyshev [this message]
2019-02-13 22:13             ` Rich Felker
2019-02-13 23:19               ` Alexey Izbyshev

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