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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