Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:31:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/26286: format string warnings in man pages. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020109113125.43328B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020109133657.C24425@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Nik Clayton wrote: :On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:40:02PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: :> The idea behind this is great, but I don't really like how the above :> text is duplicated everywhere. It seems unnatural. Ideally, the :> above would be replaced with a "see something(3) for information on :> what [a format string] implies". Unfortunately, I don't know what :> this something(3) should be; printf(3) is the first thing that comes :> to mind, but printf(3) documents a particular function; it just so :> happens that most C programmers' first sight of a format string was in :> the context of a call to printf(). : :There's a "Secure Programming" chapter in the Developer's Handbook. :Mike, could you put together some suitable text that could form the :basis of a "format string problems" section in there? : Don't forget www.freebsd.org/security/ -- Andrew R. Reiter arr@watson.org arr@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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