Coverity problems?

Christian Brueffer brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 11 15:21:44 PST 2008


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:57:04PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:12:27PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > These numbers seem strange and out of proportion. I know there has been 
> > prior cooperation with Coverity - is this just old data?
> 
> IIRC Coverity is not tracking our use of their software, at least in
> those statistics.  Someone was telling me yesterday that was because
> we have our own copy of the Coverity server which we use, rather than
> accessing the one on their site that generates the statistics.
> 
> Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 

Yes, also take a look at
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/oops_look_at_th.html

Corrections to the article by the same author.

- Christian

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