From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id ac533b3c for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 896319516D; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:32:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D97A69B7B5; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:32:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id CD27E9B7DB; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:32:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from viclamta16p.bpe.bigpond.com (viclamta16p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.80]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3AE39516D for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:32:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.26.4]) by viclafep16p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20191126223208.JUBH6209.viclafep16p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:32:08 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedufedrudeifedgudeigecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfupfevtfgpvffgnffuvffttedpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecugedttdenucenucfjughrpeffhffvufgjkfhffgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucfrrghrrghmpehhvghloheprghnvghurhhinhdrhhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhinhgvthepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpeeouggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrgheqpdhrtghpthhtohepoehtuhhhshesthhuhhhsrdhorhhgqeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedt X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.418) id 5DC8693F02F270EF for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:32:08 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id xAQMW77r076050 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:32:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id xAQMW7E4076047 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:32:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:32:07 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <1574805575.17040.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: References: <1574805575.17040.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [TUHS] FreeBSD retires gets()! X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Norman Wilson 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. Interesting... Then again,. you weren't bound by POSIX :-) > I'm glad to hear some part of the rest of the world is catching up. The wheels grind slowly... > 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. Back in the Usenet days, somebody posted the Cryptobreakers Workbench (?) which was designed to work with crypt-encrypted files; it's probably still around somewhere... Fairly easy to break as I recall, because it emulated a single-rotor Enigma. -- Dave