[Dnsmasq-discuss] Insecure function use

microcai microcai at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 30 10:52:04 BST 2013


2013/8/30 Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com>:
> I did a git grep for strcat, strcpy, and sprintf and found numerous entries
> in the codebase. Is there a specific reason for their use?

Who told you strcat/strcpy/sprintf is not secure ?
This is absolutely non-sense.

I guess Visual C++ told you that. Visual C++ will tell you that a lot
of  standard C library is "deprecated", while in fact, NO.

As a programmer , try not to be fooled by commercial product.



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