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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!news.emf.net!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Incidence of faults (was: [--] Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books) Followup-To: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Date: 30 Aug 1995 09:12:32 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <421rkg$kk5@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <DAVIS.95Aug28125457@halles.ilog.fr> <41vk4f$r1v@chaos.aoc.nrao.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.jobs.offered:196131 comp.lang.c:110929 comp.lang.c++:121376 comp.object:30942 comp.lang.eiffel:9009 alt.syntax.tactical:924 comp.lang.misc:17139 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:140 In article <41vk4f$r1v@chaos.aoc.nrao.edu>, Chris Flatters <cflatter@nrao.edu> wrote: . . . >Note, also that the fuzz checking of Miller et al. manages to crash or >hang between 15 and 43% of commercial Unix utilities. The overwhelming >majority of these problems were due to array-subscript errors and pointer >errors. One assumes that Unix vendors require that people working on >their OS utilities have some knowledge of the language they were written >in (C). > >The original fuzz paper was Miller, B.P., Fredrickson, L. and So. B, >An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities, CACM Vol. 33, >No. 12 (Dec 1990), pp32-44. A follo-up paper is available on the Web >but I've lost the URL (fortunately after printing the paper out). . . . ftp://grilled.cs.wisc.edu/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.ps.Z I recommend its reading. I assume that the seed of this thread was a "troll". In any case, I've severely trimmed follow-ups. -- Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@Neosoft.com +1 713 267 7966 claird@litwin.com +1 713 996 8546 FAX