Coverity doing scans of Wine codebase!
Joris Huizer
jorishuizer at planet.nl
Fri Apr 7 17:43:21 CDT 2006
Tom Spear wrote:
> On 4/7/06, *Michael Stefaniuc* <mstefani at redhat.com
>
>
> I couldn't agree more. Matter of fact I recall that this is the reason
> that the KLEZ virus from a few years ago was able to infect a linux
> system running outlook express on wine, as well as why certain games
> crash (they work around a bug that doesn't exist in our code), so at the
> time, AJ said that if windows has a bug, so should wine. I was puzzled
> by it at the time, but since then I figured it out (previous note in ()
> ). :-)
>
> Tom
>
> P.S. AJ, how should we go about determining what bugs that Coverity
> picks up are bugs that exist in windows, so that they can be marked in
> the actual code (in order to prevent regressions)?
>
That's what regression tests are for, right?
just me thinking aloud ;-)
regards,
Joris
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