More thinking securely...
Ryan Dooley
dooleyr at missouri.edu
Tue Dec 9 11:56:19 PST 2003
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
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