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

[Henry Spencer]

In article <879 at jonlab.UUCP> jon at jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
>I've a vague recollection that declaring input arrays to be BUFSIZ
>in length provides some protection to overflow by gets(3C).

Nope.  Except insofar as making the arrays longer reduces the probability
of somebody overflowing them.  There is no magic associated with BUFSIZ.
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