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DIR-5-1: false negatives in strtok #1078

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DIR-5-1: false negatives in strtok#1078
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Difficulty-LowA false positive or false negative report which is expected to take <1 day effort to addressImpact-Lowfalse positive/false negativeAn issue related to observed false positives or false negatives.false-negativeAn issue representing a false negative report.

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@MichaelRFairhurst
MichaelRFairhurst
opened on Mar 10, 2026

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  • DIR-5-1
  • RULE-4-1-3

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Just a typo causing us to not mark the function strtok as non-reentrant

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```cpp void f() { strtok(...); // non-reentrant } ```

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  1. MichaelRFairhurst
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    false positive/false negativeAn issue related to observed false positives or false negatives.
    Difficulty-LowA false positive or false negative report which is expected to take <1 day effort to address
    Impact-Low
    false-negativeAn issue representing a false negative report.
    on Mar 10, 2026
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