(Did I mention 100 kloc of Perl?)
Hey, you got off easy. Just imagine how much more work it would have been if everything had been done in a single line of Perl. :-)
Hey, you got off easy. Just imagine how much more work it would have been if everything had been done in a single line of Perl. :-)
(Lest I be considered entirely off topic: http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/560 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=88704 and search "klingon". Better the salariman, than Conway in a playful mood.)
But as the Freebsd security head, what do you do to understand a large code base you probably aren't familiar with and its security implications?
I ask someone to explain it to me.
Being FreeBSD Security Officer, I have an uncommon luxury: I have about 200 highly qualified developers available who will stop what they're doing and help me out if I say "so, umm, I sort of need to understand how this code works...".