[CUWiN-Dev] reimport quagga? anyone? bueller? :-)

[David Young]

Ok, so CUWiN have astonishingly high Coverity "defect" rate, owing mostly
to the 3rd-party sources in our tree, especially Quagga and Clearsilver.
What is more important is that some of the "defects" in Quagga may be
quite real, affecting the reliability of CUWiN routers in the field.

We are running an oldish Quagga by now.  I imagine that if we reimported,
the number of defects would plummet.  Here's the problem, though: Quagga
changed its socket ABI, which we use for the hslsd<->zebra communication,
since we last imported it.  This makes a reimport too daunting at my
current level of busy-ness.

The ABI changes were discussed on the Quagga developer's list, and they
will probably stand out in an svn diff after re-importing Quagga on the
vendor branch.  The changes to hslsd will be limited to tweaking the zrib
library.  It may be an afternoon's work.  It will be important to test.

Dave

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