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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#71535: multiple defects found by covscan in diff
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#71535: multiple defects found by covscan in diffutils-3.10 |
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Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:10:08 +0200 |
Hi Paul,
> I installed the attached patch into Gnulib
> to fix the bug, which appears to be so unlikely that it's not worth
> losing sleep over.
Thanks! I've propagated it to GNU libsigsegv.
> As near as I can make out, this was the only defect report by Coverity
> that was not a false alarm.
Well, from my point of view, since the file being read is from the /proc
file system, I assume that such synthetic files constructed by the
kernel are small (in the range of < 16 KB). Anyway, if it helps avoid
an alarm from static code analysis tools, the better.
Bruno