What's so bad about scanf anyway??? (really what's bad about gets)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <879 at jonlab.UUCP> jon at jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
>Is this just "conventional wisdom", or does something in the choice
>of BUFSIZ for a particular system ensure any overflow protection?

gets() will input arbitrarily long lines.
The only thing really special about BUFSIZ in this regard is that
many UNIX text editors do not support lines longer than that, so
text files containing longer lines are rarely encountered (but
not impossible).