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From: heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Reliability of Unix utilities: interesting article in CACM
Message-ID: <2486@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 5 Dec 90 02:09:30 GMT
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Organization: University of Iceland
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In <75972@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman@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 :-(
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Heimir Thor Sverrisson		heimir@rhi.hi.is