More thinking securely...
    David Rhodus 
    drhodus at catpa.com
       
    Tue Dec  9 12:24:26 PST 2003
    
    
  
On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:56 PM, Ryan Dooley wrote:
    But the work must definitely be reviewed.  For every 50 string 
functions
    you replace you have a good chance at introducing 1 new bug :-)
Just out of idle curiosity...
	neptune# cd /usr/src.pp
	neptune# egrep -r "strcpy|strcat|sprintf|vsprintf" \
		> /root/unsafe.string_functions.txt
	neptune# wc -l /root/unsafe.string_functions.txt
	   14826 /root/unsafe.string_functions.txt
:-)
.. Ryan
Thats looks like your grep'ing the whole src tree ?
-DR
    
    
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