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Considering the astonishing density of defects in Linux we can treat its author’s advice on software development as anti-advice.
by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Considering the astonishing density of defects in Linux we can treat its author’s advice on software development as anti-advice.
- mcguire 7y agoWhat is the density of defects in Linux? Any published comparisons?
- ofrzeta 7y agoAccording to Coverity, the "defect density" of the Linux kernel is around 0.5 errors per 1000 lines of code, while the average of the analyzed open source projects is around 0.7. Best among the analyzed projects is Python (the language/stdlib I guess) with an error rate of 0.08.
- shereadsthenews 7y agoI don’t know about relative quality but Syzkaller finds a new kernel bug every minute or two and Coverity says there are thousands of unfixed defects that their static analysis can detect.