Subject: Re: Coverity and userland...
To: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-misc
Date: 04/10/2006 15:21:04
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Igor Sobrado wrote:
> Thanks a lot for these references. I should have read them before
> asking but I did not find these posts. It is nice to see that both
> kernel and userland are being audited. I suppose that most bugs
> on X.org are currently easy to backport to XFree86, though! ...but
> it is beyond me how synchronizing the bug fixes for third party
> software with the original source code trees. There is a risk of
> some bug fixes for third party software being dropped as soon as
> these software packages are upgraded if not applied to the main
> source trees of these projects.
Yep - you're welcome to help digging out the changes made in NetBSD and
feeding back upstream!
- Hubert