From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 18:08:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF5216A473 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:08:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A2F13C48C for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:08:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.12]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JII00BEOABVP530@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:07:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd3mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JII009G6ABQIYI0@pd3mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:07:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JII00FXUABPRW60@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:07:02 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 2054 invoked from network); Wed, 23 May 2007 18:06:50 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:06:50 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:06:50 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <200705231753.l4NHrTEm025055@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: Garrett Wollman Message-id: <465482BA.4050607@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 References: <200705231753.l4NHrTEm025055@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070511) Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: RFC: Removing file(1)+libmagic(3) from the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:08:08 -0000 Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article you write: >> FreeBSD architects and file(1) maintainer, >> 3. Due to its nature as a program which parses multiple data formats, it >> poses an unusually high risk of having security problems in the future >> (cf. ethereal/wireshark). > > And this doesn't apply to, say, awk(1)? Eh? Unless I'm seriously confused, awk doesn't parse any data formats... Colin Percival