On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:00:17 -0300 EuAndreh <e...@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
