Coverity scans of Cyrus SASL and IMAPd

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu May 3 15:54:43 EDT 2007


Coverity has an *excellent* static analisys tool, and they do batch runs of
it over open-source software for free.

Cyrus-sasl is already on their list, but it is on rung 0.  This means
nobody from the cyrus-sasl project has registered and accessed the bug
reports from the coverity scan for SASL.

CMU upstream, please rectify that ASAP, scan.coverity.com is quite good at
pointing out the sort of nasty error that stays hidden in the code for a
long time...

Also, please request that cyrus-imapd be added to the coverity scan list,
they are allowing an expansion of the number of covered projects, and cyrus
imap is quite important enough to feature on that list.

References:
http://scan.coverity.com
http://scan.coverity.com/faq.html
http://scan.coverity.com/devfaq.html
http://scan.coverity.com/ladder.html

and the press release about it expanding for 250 projects:
http://lwn.net/Articles/232489/

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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