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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