[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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