Apple Internals
Saturday, December 10th, 2005The man page of DumpPEF:
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/AppleInternal/Developer/Tools/DumpPEF — display details of PEF binaries
Archive for December, 2005
Guidelines for a safe coding experience
Thursday, December 1st, 2005There are lots of tutorials for secure coding, but
I haven’t seen many hints on safe coding.
After another disaster that led to a full source code loss,
I started to write one and I just rediscovered it on my hard drive. Here it is:
- Consider working on a disk image rather than on a harddisk, it will make
recovery much easier since less space is needed to create a full dump. - Consider replacing your rm command with secure_rm, that waits for some time
before starting to delete files. Alternativly use trm.py, a trashcan featured
delete command. - Insert unique comments, it will help you when analyzing the disk dump
while recovering. - Always use make, do not call any other command. Write targets
to compile, run and clean. - Use a version control system and commit changes regularly. Do not
forget to backup the repository. - Use a text editor that creates backup files. Do not delete those backup files.