Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 03:53:22 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security scripts diff Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002010353030.61449@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20100201004003.GE12157@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002010310180.61449@woozle.rinet.ru> <20100201004003.GE12157@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, David Wolfskill wrote:
DW> > looking at regular security mails I found that foloowing patch would greatly
DW> > desreases amount of false positive reports; it's totally possible I'm missing
DW> > some vital areas, but my current look at security scripts did not reveal any.
DW> >
DW> > What do you think? Thank you in advance.
DW> > ...
DW>
DW> I think maybe -b ("Ignore changes in the amount of white space.") might
DW> be better than -w ("Ignore all white space."), as the presence or
DW> absence of *some* white space can be a signifant difference (e.g., to a
DW> non-FORTRAN IV parser).
Agreed.
--
Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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