I had a quick look at the scripts in tools/maintainer/ now that the
subject came up again. Here are some comments...
scptar:
This is completely unused and very very trivial, remove?
sync-all:
- The ping is repeated, once for all hosts in succession, then for each
host before connecting to it. This seems pretty redundant to me.
- A temporary directory is created in a world-writable location, /tmp,
with a predictable name. This is a security hole. Does this need
explanation or am I preaching to the choir?
update-html-howto:
Cannot work as it tries to run 'make' in the doc/ subdirectory, which
is no longer supported since ages. Is this script unused or just
failing silently? This should be fixed or removed.
