[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Fix bug in oss-fuzz options file

Bhargava Shastry bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de
Fri Sep 28 17:44:36 UTC 2018


Hi Aaron,

The mistake is on my part. I am breaking up my email by hand because I
fear bots on the Internet are going to pick up well formatted emails and
send spam :-)

Is my concern well-founded? Do you have any suggestions for fighting
auto-scraping of email addresses?

Regards,
Bhargava

On 09/28/2018 05:20 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
> bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de writes:
> 
>> From: Bhargava Shastry <bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de>
>>
>> oss-fuzz options file must begin with a [libfuzzer] header.
>> This was missing in the expr_parse_target.options file which this patch 
>> fixes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bhargava Shastry <bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de>
>> ---
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that the bot is complaining because of your
> signature line:
> 
>  'Signed-off-by: Bhargava Shastry <bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de>'
> 
> I'm not sure if we should amend checkpatch to recognize this kind of
> construct.  It isn't an email address.
> 
> Is this a mistake on your end, or is some mail filter scrambling it?
> 
> Then again, maybe we should adopt Postel's law and allow for ' at ' to
> also be an email divider for signoff lines?
> 

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