Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:51:57 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Michael McDowell <mike@nolaf.net>, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: realpath(3) et al Message-ID: <p052106dabb6188e151e1@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030814183824.GA29697@nolaf.net> References: <20030811133749.U27196@fubar.adept.org> <20030811232132.GB46629@madman.celabo.org> <20030811162602.N72549@fubar.adept.org> <20030812085617.GA407@FreeBSD.org> <20030814183824.GA29697@nolaf.net>
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At 2:38 PM -0400 8/14/03, Michael McDowell wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:56:18AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >> > > BTW, if anybody really wants to start up the audit project > > again, I think somebody should take a look at integrating > > some of the changes OpenBSD has made. No reason to spend > > time finding the bugs OpenBSD has already fixed. > >I agree with the OpenBSD suggestion, it would be a real time >saver. Speaking as someone who actually looks at NetBSD and OpenBSD sources, this is often much easier said than done. There are a number of source files which have diverged so much over the years that it can chew up an awful lot of time to try to separate the "simple bug fixes" from new features, or various code-rearrangements. As I say, I *do* try to do this, so I certainly do think it is worth doing. However, it is not necessarily "a real time saver". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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