tmpnam v mkstemp
Geoff Keating
geoffk@geoffk.org
Sat Nov 11 14:29:00 GMT 2000
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:11:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
> Does libc also warn about the use of functions like `strcpy' and
> `gets' at link time? They are security holes as well, if used
> incorrectly.
I believe it warns about 'gets', but not about 'strcpy'. The
justification is that 'gets' is almost always a problem but the same
is not true for 'strcpy'.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
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