On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:00:17 -0300
EuAndreh <eu_AT_euandre.org> wrote:
Dear EuAndreh,
> The README of the sbase project [0] classifies tools has being
> audited or not. Looking at the log of the repository I could only
> find soft references to what such audit entails, such as [1] and [2].
>
> From what I could understand, an "audited" tools is a tool that
> someone has read the POSIX specification for it and manually tested
> its behaviour, later adding the "audited" flag to the README. Is
> that correct?
>
> [0]: https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/README.html
> [1]: 4750b233cedcc599652f0ade4a26a76bc3cf7644
> [2]: 44bd9318348cff0d971f7bc6c496257854225118
exactly, there's no "formal" process. You just check that the program
works. One could think of adding unit-tests, but POSIX already sells
such a set of unit tests.
With best regards
Laslo
Received on Thu Jul 29 2021 - 20:16:37 CEST