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From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Reliability of Unix utilities: interesting article in CACM
Message-ID: <75972@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 21:37:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Indiana University
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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
either core dumped or hung.

I found it to be very interesting reading and wanted to draw
this article to the attention of any of you who might not
read CACM.  All Unix programmers could benefit by reading
this article.

Steve Hayman
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