[cfe-dev] Scan-Build question

[Bradley Jackson via cfe-dev]

Hello all,

I am a current student at University of Pennsylvania and am 
experimenting with scan-build as part of a senior project. I just had a 
couple questions regarding some behavior I didn't quite understand. Does 
the output of scan-build differ depending on the user permissions, or 
whether it is created as a child process? Are there any flags that 
determine how sensitive scan-build is to detecting bugs? For reference, 
running scan build myself versus through executing a shell command on a 
Node.js server on that same machine yields different outputs, with the 
server outputting many more. I cannot find any configuration file, and 
all the bugs reported belong to the set of checkers enabled by default. 
I would love some insight into why this could be happening.

Best regards,

Bradley Jackson