Reliability of Unix utilities: interesting article in CACM
Heimir Thor Sverrisson
heimir at rhi.hi.is
Wed Dec 5 13:09:30 AEST 1990
In <75972 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:
>The December issue of Communications of the ACM contains an
>interesting article, "An Empirical Study of the Reliability
>of Unix Utilities". The authors describe tools they wrote which
>would fire up various Unix utilities and send streams of random
>8-bit junk at them. About 25% of the utilities studied
This is confirmed by the failure of so many utilities to cope whith my
8-bit character data (Icelandic coded in ISO-8859/1, which is classified
as a sort of 'random 8-bit junk' in some languages :-(
--
Heimir Thor Sverrisson heimir at rhi.hi.is
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