Re: Document hardening flags in the coding standards

[Karl Berry]

    They turn bugs which would result in code execution into mere crashers 
    (most of the time).  

Sure sounds good.  I passed that on to rms.

    There is a precedent, and I thought it could be expanded:
    http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Semantics.html

Perhaps we're using different words to describe the same idea.

If what you're proposing is the same level as the text in that node now
-- that is, advice on what (not) to do and the general approach -- then
I expect that would be fine (as I replied in the first place).

Your reply made me think that you wanted to put, not just more-or-less
informal advice and information, but the full reference documentation
for the features in the coding standards.  For example, that node does
not describe POSIX signals or what O_EXCL does, it just says using them
is good.

k