Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:40:03 -0800 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security scripts diff Message-ID: <20100201004003.GE12157@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002010310180.61449@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002010310180.61449@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:13:39AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> looking at regular security mails I found that foloowing patch would greatly
> desreases amount of false positive reports; it's totally possible I'm missing
> some vital areas, but my current look at security scripts did not reveal any.
>
> What do you think? Thank you in advance.
> ...
I think maybe -b ("Ignore changes in the amount of white space.") might
be better than -w ("Ignore all white space."), as the presence or
absence of *some* white space can be a signifant difference (e.g., to a
non-FORTRAN IV parser).
Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org
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