[debbugs-tracker] bug#32427: closed (several issues found by covscan in diffutils-3.6)

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in diffutils-3.6
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #32427,
regarding several issues found by covscan in diffutils-3.6
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: several issues found by covscan in diffutils-3.6 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:43:43 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Covscan found a large number of issues in diffutils-3.6. The Coverity covscan result is attached.

Best Regards,

Than

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> > Covscan found a large number of issues in diffutils-3.6.
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> My goodness, that is a large number of issues. However, after I looked at the 
> first 100 lines' worth, I found that every last issue was a false alarm. If you 
> know of a real bug buried deep in there somewhere please let us know. In the 
> meantime I'm going to boldly close this bug report.
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> You might also want to let the covscan authors know that their tool is crying 
> wolf waaaay too often.
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