Reliability of Unix utilities: interesting article in CACM

[Heimir Thor Sverrisson]

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