[Open-scap] Some questions on OVAL syschar

Lukas Kuklinek lkuklinek at redhat.com
Thu Jul 30 09:02:40 UTC 2009


Hello,

I'd like to get clairified some things connected with the OVAL definitions and 
system characteristics implementation.

First, why is return type of the oval_probe_object (oval_agent.h) 
oval_syschar_iterator? I think oval_syschar would be more appropriate since 
it is able to posses all items collected as a result of investigating given 
object.

Second, the implementation currently lacks functions to free some structs, 
namely oval_syschar_model and oval_object_model. The examples in the git 
repository parse XML files, but then do not call any function to release the 
allocated memory. Do you plan to implement those? Or am I missing something?

Lukas Kuklinek




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