C: gets() function warning.

[kapok]

whats dangerous about the gets() function?

[jimi_hendrix]

buffer overflow...use fgets() instead

[kapok]

fgets() works the same way?

[jimi_hendrix]

myString = fgets(myString, sizeof(string), stdin);
/*takes a string, how many chars to read, and the file (in this case stdin for cli input) to read returns the value of the string you pass so i think what i have up there is redundent*/

[module0000]

Can ram as many characters into gets() input as you want, eventually writing to memory you have no business writing to.