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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from January 2014</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from January 2014</description>
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  10                 <title>New chrpath release 0.16</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.coverity.com/&quot;&gt;Coverity&lt;/a&gt; is a nice tool to
  15 find problems in C, C++ and Java code using static source code
  16 analysis.  It can detect a lot of different problems, and is very
  17 useful to find memory and locking bugs in the error handling part of
  18 the source.  The company behind it provide
  19 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scan.coverity.com/&quot;&gt;check of free software projects as
  20 a community service&lt;/a&gt;, and many hundred free software projects are
  21 already checked.  A few days ago I decided to have a closer look at
  22 the Coverity system, and discovered that the
  23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/&quot;&gt;gnash&lt;/a&gt; and
  24 &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/&quot;&gt;ipmitool&lt;/a&gt;
  25 projects I am involved with was already registered.  But these are
  26 fairly big, and I would also like to have a small and easy project to
  27 check, and decided to &lt;a href=&quot;http://scan.coverity.com/projects/1179&quot;&gt;request
  28 checking of the chrpath project&lt;/a&gt;.  It was
  29 added to the checker and discovered seven potential defects.  Six of
  30 these were real, mostly resource &quot;leak&quot; when the program detected an
  31 error.  Nothing serious, as the resources would be released a fraction
  32 of a second later when the program exited because of the error, but it
  33 is nice to do it right in case the source of the program some time in
  34 the future end up in a library.  Having fixed all defects and added
  35 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/chrpath-devel&quot;&gt;a
  36 mailing list for the chrpath developers&lt;/a&gt;, I decided it was time to
  37 publish a new release.  These are the release notes:&lt;/p&gt;
  38
  39 &lt;p&gt;New in 0.16 released 2014-01-14:&lt;/p&gt;
  40
  41 &lt;ul&gt;
  42
  43   &lt;li&gt;Fixed all minor bugs discovered by Coverity.&lt;/li&gt;
  44   &lt;li&gt;Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project.&lt;/li&gt;
  45   &lt;li&gt;Mention new project mailing list in the documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
  46
  47 &lt;/ul&gt;
  48
  49 &lt;p&gt;You can
  50 &lt;a href=&quot;https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052&quot;&gt;download the
  51 new version 0.16 from alioth&lt;/a&gt;.  Please let us know via the Alioth
  52 project if something is wrong with the new release.  The test suite
  53 did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
  54 include a test suite check.&lt;/p&gt;
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