Re: security scripts diff

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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