lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:	Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:45:12 -0300
From:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
To:	Phillip Lougher <phil.lougher@...il.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fix typos

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 23:29, Phillip Lougher <phil.lougher@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Lucas De Marchi
> <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:18, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'm not so sure about "is rose up" being better.  and what about "ar"?
>>
>> I'm only changing words with 3 chars or more, because otherwise I
>> would have a lot of false positives, but I think I can add this word
>> without much trouble.
>>
>
> The problem with "ar" is it is too short to know for certain what it
> should be...  "ar" though likely a typo for "are" could also be a typo
> for e.g. "arm", "arc", "arg", "ark", and "arp".
>
> Perhaps in this and similar cases the script should flag these errors
> for human attention rather than automatically fixing them.

Yes, after enabling it I've saw a lot of false positives and wrong
fixes. Even cases where "ar" was the correct one, referring to the ar
tool.

Now, I put this together with other warnings.



-- 

Lucas De Marchi
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ