Bug#1007140: please have a check for chown user.group
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> writes:
> That regexp was copied verbatim from my codesearch search box. Did you
> forget to switch the dropdown to "regex"?
> The shadow package contains about ten of those constructs, for example
> shadow_1:4.11.1+dfsg1-2/contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch
> - fprintf (stderr, "%s: line %d: mkdir failed\n",
> - Prog, line);
> - else if (chown (newpw.pw_dir,
> - newpw.pw_uid, newpw.pw_gid))
> - fprintf (stderr, "%s: line %d: chown
> failed\n",
This specific example is a false positive, though, correct? I think you
want to filter out hits that include a parenthesis, since those are likely
to be calls to the C library function, which doesn't have this issue.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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