Unsecured API functions

[Tom Spear]

I was writing up a Hello World with input program for a demonstration
for a non-developer coworker last week, and used the unsecured getch()
and got the standard warning about how it was unsecured and dangerous
to use that.  That prompted me to look up the basic secured functions
on the MS website, and compare to wine code.  According to MSDN,
things like gets have been replaced with gets_s.  However, as far as I
can tell, wine still only implements gets for Windows programs to
use..  Do we implement secured versions of other functions, and if
not, how come?

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Thanks

Tom

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[Robert Shearman]

Tom Spear wrote:
> I was writing up a Hello World with input program for a demonstration
> for a non-developer coworker last week, and used the unsecured getch()
> and got the standard warning about how it was unsecured and dangerous
> to use that.  That prompted me to look up the basic secured functions
> on the MS website, and compare to wine code.  According to MSDN,
> things like gets have been replaced with gets_s.  However, as far as I
> can tell, wine still only implements gets for Windows programs to
> use..  Do we implement secured versions of other functions, and if
> not, how come?

Q: Why doesn't Wine implement X?
A: Because not many programs use it and no-one has felt interested in 
implementing it for fun.

-- 
Rob Shearman

[Frank Richter]

On 03.05.2007 22:00, Tom Spear wrote:
> Do we implement secured versions of other functions, and if
> not, how come?

The *_s functions are provided by the C runtime library (ie
msvcr80.dll). So Wine probably doesn't need to implement them (at least
not until they pop up in, say, msvcrt.dll).

-f.r.