[TUHS] Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software.

[Douglas McIlroy]

>> a paper appeared (in CACM?) that repeated Dennis's exercise.

> Maybe this one?

> B.P. Miller, L. Fredriksen, and B. So, "An Empirical Study of the Reliability
> of UNIX Utilities", Communications of the ACM 33, 12 (December 1990).

> http://www.paradyn.org/papers/fuzz.pdf

Probably. I had forgotten that the later effort was considerably more
elaborate than Dennis's. It created multiple random inputs that might
stumble on other things besides buffer overflow. I see a Unix parable
in the remarkable efficacy of Dennis's single-shot test.

Doug