From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] FreeBSD retires gets()!
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:31:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn337HzvvtBtxEW-kQ9Do3r_Jp7QuQrf9a8uo2UNwAUJvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1574805575.17040.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
I have managed to forget most of my C issues, but "does it gobble the
\n or does it leave the \n" sticks, because gets() was bound into it,
and because Python perpetuates it in line-mode reading.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 8:00 AM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
>
> We retired gets from Research UNIX back in 1984 or perhaps
> earlier, with no serious pain because replacing it wasn't
> hard and everybody agreed with the reason.
>
> I'm glad to hear some part of the rest of the world is
> catching up.
>
> We also decided to retire the old Enigma-derived crypt(1),
> except we didn't want to throw it out entirely in case
> someone had an old encrypted file and wanted the contents
> back. So it was removed from the manual and the binary
> moved to /usr/games.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-26 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-26 21:59 Norman Wilson
2019-11-26 22:31 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2019-11-26 22:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-26 23:29 ` Richard Salz
2019-11-27 0:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-26 23:06 ` Katherine Barto
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2019-11-26 21:10 Dave Horsfall
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