X protocol specs & X.Org Security Advisory: Protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries

[Matt Dew]

On 05/25/2013 10:48 AM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On 13-05-24 11:24 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Answering some questions about these issues today, I wrote:
>>
>>      [...] when reviewing these, a lot of them were non obvious unless
>> you had
>>      the source in one window, the protocol headers in another and the
>> protocol
>>      spec in a third. This was tedious work to cross-reference and
>> confirm or
>>      refute each report [...]
>>
>> which reminded me that huge thanks are also due to Matt & Gaetan and
>> everyone
>> else who helped getting our documentation modernized.
>>
>> As tedious as this work was, it was far better than if we had to page
>> through
>> paper manuals or the old postscript dumps from the old nroff specs -
>> having
>> html specs online with links to jump directly to the right call
>> encoding or
>> description made it much faster to see which values could be large
>> enough to
>> cause overflows, or what values we should be checking to limit the
>> values to.
>>
>> So once again, thanks for making our specs more usable!
>>
> A tribute to your leadership. Not only you got the job done, but you go
> it done by volunteers!
>

Agreed!