What are the C functions from the standard library that must / should be avoided ?

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Published on 2010-04-02T08:23:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 8:33 UTC
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I've read on stackoverflow that some C functions are 'obsolete' or should be 'avoided'. Can you please give me some examples of this kind of functions + the reason why.

Later edit: From the answers:

gets : can cause buffer overflows.
strtok : is not thread safe (Question: Are C functions thread-safe anyways ?)

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