[ntp:questions] nagios
Harlan Stenn
stenn at ntp.org
Wed Jun 11 06:47:11 UTC 2014
Rob writes:
> Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
>> Rob writes:
>>>
>>> What is the impact of "The ntp-dev* packages do not utilize any of the
>>> Debian distribution patches"?
>>
>> If the debian distribution folks would tell us about these things
>> there's a good chance we could incorporate them into the distribution
>> and they wouldn't be needed.
>
> What I saw on Ubuntu (I did not look specifically at the Debian
> patches yet) was things like forgotten or wrong format strings in
> printf. Things like changing
>
> fprintf(stdout, buffer);
>
> into
>
> fprintf(stdout, "%s", buffer);
>
> Of course the patches are in a separate file that can be downloaded
> from the source repository.
If there are any of those in ntp-dev I'd be surprised. But I've been
surprised before...
H
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