[PATCH] cleanup audit name handling

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue Nov 29 23:07:03 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 29 November 2005 17:55, Amy Griffis wrote:
> Cleanup handling of name field: "(null)" is a legit filename, so don't
> use it for a placeholder.

Not sure this is better. This patch causes the output to end with =. Which 
makes people think that the software malfunctioned on output. "(null)" is 
supplied by printf and the like whenever it dereferences a NULL pointer...so 
a precedent is already set for that string being output.

-Steve




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