On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 00:57 -0700, carl hansen wrote:
> another thing about gets()
> see man gets
>  " LSB deprecates gets().  POSIX.1-2008 marks gets() obsolescent.  ISO C11 
> removes the  specification  of  gets()
>        from  the  C language, and since version 2.16, glibc header files 
> don't expose the function declaration if the
>        _ISOC11_SOURCE feature test macro is defined.
> 
> It might be the case that your code doesn't recognize gets() is because 
> _ISOC11_SOURCE feature test macro is defined.
> 
> 
> It would be better for all concerned if the original author wished to 
> maintain the program and fix it.
> But we're all volunteers...

Ah this is a big problem.  Fortunately, I'm well-placed to pester the
maintainer about this.  I'll see what I can do.  We definitely need an
interim solution, though.

-b

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