On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:58:47PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> > How about setting umask 077, creating an fopen wrapper which takes a
> > mode as well, and adding code to the testsuite that greps through the
> > code and raises an alarm whenever it finds an unwrapped fopen() call
> > outside the wrapper itself?
>
> There is already a wrapper for opening msglogs, so I guess extending it
> makes sense (but I can't remember if it uses fopen() or open()).
Want me to file a bug?
> Having
> the test suite grep the code does not fit into the test suite design
> (which doesn't require you to have the source available). Although it
> could be extended, I'm not sure it is the right thing to do.
I agree. This would probably be overengineering. More important things
to do.
Greetings
Marc
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