On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Tracy R. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> > ftp://grilled.cs.wisc.edu/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.ps.Z
>
> Wow. This is good stuff! Thanks for posting. It's excellent ammo for my
> "Linux rulez" vs. "A drunken Finn and his band of merry hackers could
> never code a stable OS" debates. :)
>
> Quoting the important bit for those of you who were to lazy to ftp and
> read the file...
>
> >From "Fuzz Revisited: A Re-examination of the Reliability of
> UNIX Utilities and Services" by Barton P. Miller <bart @
cs .
wisc .
edu> et al
> (ftp://grilled.cs.wisc.edu/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.ps.Z):
>
> The result of our testing is that we can crash (with core dump) or hang
> (infinite loop) over 40% (in the worst case) of the basic programs and
> over 25% of the X-Window applications. We were not able to crash any of
> the network services that we tested nor any of X-Window servers. This
> study parallels our 1990 study (that tested only the basic UNIX
> utilities); all systems that we compared between 1990 and 1995 noticeably
> improved in reliability, but still had significant rates of failure. The
> reliability of the basic utilities from GNU and Linux were noticeably
> better than those of the commercial systems.
You know i wonder what they would have said had they INCLUDED FreeBSD.
Makes one wonder.
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