Re: filldir[64] oddness

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 11:59:27 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 04:40 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:32:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > I think coverity is being trigger happy in this case :-)
>
> If that's coverity, I'm very disappointed and more than a little
> suspicious about the quality of their results.

About half of the ~50 reports I've looked at so far in their database
have been false positives. In most of those cases, it's not obvious how
a checker might have gotten them right instead, though.

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