Re: Locales and Programs parsing other's output
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 02:52:59PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
> Ian> Does anyone want to maintain this manual ? I take it from
> Ian> Christian's posting that he doesn't.
>
> I would be interested in (co-?) maintaining this manual, with
> help from the list in determining what should or should not go in
> there.
>
> manoj
Wow, I feel a document of high value and quality coming up. This is my
personal wishlist, as I'm truely an unexperienced programmer:
* Secure programming (temp files in several languages, uid/suid etc, file
locking),... with explanation why certain approaches are insufficient and
bad (and how they can be exploited ;)
* Architecture independent programming (endian, built-in types,
location of include files, building of shared libraries...)
* Probably a short introduction in build tools as make, xmkmf, autoconf,
automake, libtools (as why to use them and when to use which etc...)
* there should probably be two sections: application programming and library
programming, at least for some specific section (security!, version
numbering schemes [for libraries completely non-intuitive])
* "Historic Features" section with information about traditional "broken" programs
as ldd, etc. (for example, ldd looking in library path first, or the linker
linking with every -l'ed library...)
* I/O programming ?
* resource management ?
Well, the list could be easily extended, please don't take it too seriously,
it's just brain storming (although I'm quite serious about the first three
topics).
Thank you,
Marcus
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