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From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:13:39AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>=20
> looking at regular security mails I found that foloowing patch would grea=
tly=20
> desreases amount of false positive reports; it's totally possible I'm mis=
sing=20
> some vital areas, but my current look at security scripts did not reveal =
any.
>=20
> 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).
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David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil.

See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.

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