From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] FreeBSD retires gets()!
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:10:50 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911270809310.33542@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
Seen in the FreeBSD Quarterly Report:
gets(3) retirement
Contact: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
gets is an obsolete C library routine for reading a string from
standard input. It was removed from the C standard as of C11 because
there was no way to use it safely. Prompted by a comment during Paul
Vixie's talk at vBSDCon 2017 I started investigating what it would take
to remove gets from libc.
The patch was posted to Phabricator and refined several times, and the
portmgr team performed several exp-runs to identify ports broken by the
removal. Symbol versioning is used to preserve binary compatibility for
existing software that uses gets.
The change was committed in September, and will be in FreeBSD 13.0.
This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.
And the world is a slightly safer place...
-- Dave
next reply other threads:[~2019-11-26 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-26 21:10 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2019-11-26 21:59 Norman Wilson
2019-11-26 22:31 ` George Michaelson
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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