OK, but from which branch?
Can the results be sent incrementally?
2016-08-07 19:57 GMT+02:00 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de>:
> Hi,
>
> from time to time, people ask how they can help OpenBSD development
> if they are new to that task.
>
> Right now, there is a useful opportunity. Take the code in
> /usr/src/usr.bin/mandoc/, grep(1) it for "%s", and audit all instances
> you find, figuring out whether they can be reached with the char *
> being NULL or not. If you find one where the pointer can be NULL,
> construct an input file and a command line (for example, "'mandoc
> -Tlint foo.mdoc' or 'makewhatis -t foo.mdoc' with the attached
> file foo.mdoc") demonstrating that man(1), apropos(1), mandoc(1),
> or makewhatis(8) actually print "(null)", and send the report to
> me.
>
> The task is not very difficult, but requires considerable time (i
> guess i would need up to two days to do the full audit, even though
> i know the code very well). I have a huge backlog of patches to
> check and a huge backlog of tricky programming tasks to tackle.
> Once somebody finds these issues for me, fixing them is trivial,
> and i can focus on work that is less easy to do for newcomers.
>
> Besides, this will improve your code reading and auditing skills.
> If you find a few things, you could even try to tackle other
> parts of the tree which are more difficult.
>
> In mandoc, there are almost certainly some instances because
> until now, i wasn't aware that printf("%s", NULL) is problematic.
>
> Yours,
> Ingo
