Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 17504: /trunk/gtk/: main.c

[Thomas Anders <thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> That is, the alleged defect that Coverity found is not really a defect.
>
> Basically, we're trading resources. The Coverity tool has discovered
> some problem spots in our source code, but there's plenty of false
> positives. So in return for the true positives, we supply Coverity
> with our man-hours to find the false positives --- essentially
> debugging the Coverity tool itself.

Not to mention the $297,000 payment to Coverty out of the total $1.24 
million grant from DHS. Still, I think money can be spend *much* worse 
than that.


+Thomas

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