Re: Document hardening flags in the coding standards

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/07/2012 12:27 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      They turn bugs which would result in code execution into mere crashers
>      (most of the time).
>
> Sure sounds good.  I passed that on to rms.

Thanks.  I've sent him a more verbose explanation he requested.

> Your reply made me think that you wanted to put, not just more-or-less
> informal advice and information, but the full reference documentation
> for the features in the coding standards.  For example, that node does
> not describe POSIX signals or what O_EXCL does, it just says using them
> is good.

I see.  I think we're in roughly on the same page.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team