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Re: Coverity error scan



On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:01:02AM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> Fyi: scan.coverity.com reports finding 158 bugs in OpenLDAP source code. 
> I've registered an account there to view the error reports. A large 
> number of them appear to be false reports. Will take time to get through 
> it all. It appears the report was generated against CVS HEAD on Feb 24, 
> but I haven't confirmed that yet.

Ok, then you're lucky. Most of the Samba ones were real,
although from time to time really fiddly to find that they
are indeed bugs. Most of the ones however are in weird error
cases of the kind 'If malloc(10) fails, we are in deeper
trouble anyway'...

Volker

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