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Date:      Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:04:47 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Which program produces FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-*-disc1.iso ?
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> the FreeBSD project has had a free Coverity account for a
>> few years now.
>
> Does it also get applied to ports ?
> Especially i would be interested in my own upstream stuff:
>   http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=libburn
>   http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=libisofs
>   http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=sysutils&portname=xorriso
>
> Meanwhile i filed
>   https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203531
>
> Problem #1 would be a candidate for Coverity.
>   "Uninitialized malloc memory in timestamp of root directory."
>
> The other three problems are decisions at the discretion of
> the programmer. We will have to wait a few more years before
> automats can tell us that we got the specs wrong or try to
> save a few bytes where it is not worth the hassle.
>
>
>> Would it be possible to get Thomas an account?
>
> A list of my own errors would not really be welcome but in
> any case appreciated. :))
>
> A Coverity run over makefs would make sense if my proposals
> get implemented in some way. I hope they are safe, but one
> never knows.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas

Nope. Coverity only runs on CURRENT.  It only knows how to check C and
C++ code, so it wouldn't be very useful in ports, anyway.  Thanks a
lot for the bug report!

-Alan



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