From fae254288cccdd596f7cb874cc0d867dd1b55f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Wheeler" Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:25:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak README to explain, in a little more detail, what it is. --- README | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 45a8d5f..2907d64 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ This is "flawfinder" by David A. Wheeler, . -It's a simple Python program for scanning source code for security problems. +It's a simple Python program for scanning C/C++ source code +for security problems. It uses lexical scanning to find tokens +(such as function names) that suggest likely problems, estimates their +level of risk (e.g., by the text of function calls), and reports the resutlts. For more information, see: http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder