security scripts diff

[David Wolfskill]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:13:39AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> looking at regular security mails I found that foloowing patch would greatly 
> desreases amount of false positive reports; it's totally possible I'm missing 
> some vital areas, but my current look at security scripts did not reveal any.
> 
> What do you think? Thank you in advance.
> ...

I think maybe -b ("Ignore changes in the amount of white space.") might
be better than -w ("Ignore all white space."), as the presence or
absence of *some* white space can be a signifant difference (e.g., to a
non-FORTRAN IV parser).
                                                                                
Peace,                                                                          
david                                                                           
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