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Code documentation Software architecture - How Amanda fits together APIs Virtual tape API Server/Client communication Secure API TCP/UDP ports Firewalls & NAT Application API Device API Event API Driver-Taper protocol Reading amanda configuration REQ packet format update

Developer Resources amanda-hackers mailing list Lint : lint makefile target is available for Amanda source tree. Run "make lint" to do static analysis of Amanda source code. Valgrind: Memory allocation/free checker. See Using Valgrind for details on how to use it with Amanda. Valgrind is especially useful in debugging glibc errors. Errors beginning with *** glibc detected *** are errors in Amanda memory allocation detected by glibc. Please report all such problems to the amanda-hackers mailing list or the Amanda forums. You can disable glibc error detection by setting $MALLOC_CHECK to 1. Please note that this might cause Amanda to fail later.

Static source code analysis Coverity and Klocwork have been running their static analysis tools on the latest Amanda source code and making the results available for the Amanda developers to analyse and fix the defects. Currently (July 7, 2006), we have zero defects found by these tools. We are thankful to these companies for making these tools available and in general, helping to improve quality of open source projects. Coverity scan results Klocwork K7.1