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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:45:06 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libalias alias_proxy.c 
Message-ID:  <200008301745.LAA17412@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:40:33 %2B0400." <20000830214032.A6643@nagual.pp.ru> 
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In message <20000830214032.A6643@nagual.pp.ru> "Andrey A. Chernov" writes:
: On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:17:57AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <20000830191124.A5556@nagual.pp.ru> "Andrey A. Chernov" writes:
: > : Detect somehow at compile time that dangerous function present during
: > : library building process and produce compile-time warning.
: > 
: > For 1 function, this hardly seems worth the effort.  However, as the
: > numbers grow, this becomes desirable.  However, I think that the
: > current set of warning tools is not sufficient to cope.
: 
: We have many, consider whole srandom*() family f.e.. It will be good, if
: somebody will examine libc for more offending functions...

And getopt...
and the passwd and group file functions...
Ditto, I think for mount points...

Basically anything that is STATEFUL in a global way (as opposed to
fopen which is stateful in a localized way, for the purposes of this
discussion).

Warner


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