From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 23 23:35:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D3614C8E; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA11966; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:34:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA18770; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:34:53 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199911240734.AAA18770@harmony.village.org> To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: FreeBSD security auditing project. Cc: Gerald Abshez , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:08:31 PST." References: Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:34:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Kris Kennaway writes: : Yep, this is part of the "education" component: "this is what an unsafe : function call looks like, and this is how to fix it". There's bound to be : enough useful documentation out there which we can collect and point to. __warn_references(tempnam, "warning: tempnam() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()"); We can increase the number of functions that have this tag (maybe optionally to aid in the search). However, tagging strcpy may produce too loud a cacophony to be useful. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message