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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:51:25 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtol.3 strtol.c strtoll.c strtoq.c strtoul.3 strtoul.c strtoull.c strtouq.c
Message-ID:  <20010904125125.A56758@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010904234757.A34576@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:47:58PM %2B0400
References:  <200109041639.f84GdBm87501@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010904204454.A32114@nagual.pp.ru> <p05100307b7bab7186d08@[10.1.10.118]> <200109041705.f84H5W692572@earth.backplane.com> <20010904122843.A56085@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010904233320.A34429@nagual.pp.ru> <20010904123718.A56317@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010904234757.A34576@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:47:58PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:37:18 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > I had to write several scanners for serious libc bugs for previous
> > advisories, and in the cases where there was no rcsid available it
> > *sucked*.
>=20
> Well, Matt says "remove them" and you says "left them". If I put them
> there again now, somebody comes and ask for remove again. Could we please
> state rcsid "must be" (or "must not") state in some document
> to clarify this subject?

I'd welcome further discussion on this.  The best compromise solution
may be for someone to figure out a macro to stick them in an ELF
section, add a way for people to strip them out, and to do a cleanup
pass to move them all over.

Kris




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