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Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated

Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated

Posted Mar 8, 2006 0:49 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated by rwild
Parent article: Coverity releases first defect survey results

Indeed, although I'm not sure what effect this has on things that want to install with unusual userids (and there are some).


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Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated

Posted Mar 9, 2006 10:25 UTC (Thu) by rwild (guest, #16004) [Link]

Yes (therefore the "mostly"). I usually "make install -k DESTDIR=.." then and fix the setuid manually. Not so great. Better to get fast-install mode fixed in Libtool on more systems (which avoids the relinking in the first place).

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