Dec 3, 2010 · The Early Bug gets () the Internet Worm The problems in C are not confined to just the language. Some routines in the standard library have unsafe semantics. This was …

Why is gets() dangerous The first internet worm (the Morris Internet Worm) escaped about 30 years ago (1988-11-02), and it used gets() and a buffer overflow as one of its methods of …

Oct 15, 2012 · The gets () function does not perform bounds checking, therefore this function is extremely vulnerable to buffer-overflow attacks. It cannot be used safely (unless the program …

Jul 10, 2015 · And the difference between gets/scanf and fgets is that gets(); and scanf(); only scan until the first space ' ' while fgets(); scans the whole input. (but be sure to clean the buffer …

Dec 25, 2017 · These days I am learning strings and arrays in cpp. In my school they taught us to take a string as user input, one have to use gets() but it isn't working on any of the compilers I …

Nov 20, 2022 · Take a look at gets() reference Get string from stdin Reads characters from the standard input (stdin) and stores them as a C string into str until a newline character or the end …

I learned that gets creates a new line and asks the user to input something, and gets.chomp does the same thing except that it does not create a new line. gets must return an object, so you …

Oct 1, 2009 · I have a program written in C and it calls gets() from a switch when a user chooses the option of 3. Here is my code. It does not seem to wait to wait for the user to input …

Oct 28, 2014 · gets - Reads characters from stdin and stores them as a string. scanf - Reads data from stdin and stores them according to the format specified int the scanf statement like %d, …

Feb 23, 2021 · I have a confusion related to using puts(), gets(), putchar() and getchar() simultaneously use in the code. When I have run the below code, it is doing all steps: taking …