Banned C standard library functions in Git source code

Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by jpjuni0r on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:51PM (#20793956)

I'm curious how sscanf is considered bad?

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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by saagarjha on Sunday August 25, 2019 @01:46PM (#20794336)

scanf(“%s”, …) can cause a buffer overflow.

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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by mort96 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:00PM (#20794792)

It sucks that there's no scanf("%.*s"), where you give the buffer length as a separate argument. The fact that it's in a string literal also makes using a compile-time constant really ugly.

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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by claystu on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:06PM (#20794829)

You can overflow buffers all sorts of ways in C.

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