fuzz-revisited_gnu_and_unix_error_rate_compared.pdf

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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 19:24:35 JST 翠星石

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   @SuperDicq It came to me in a dream.
   
   I remember reading an article about the error rate of the GNU project and how it turned out to be surprisingly low, although I can't remember the name of the site.
   
   
   On a related note, there was one study that compared the reliably and error rate of the coreutils of many different proprietary Unix's and GNU and found that; "The failure rate of the public GNU utilities was the lowest in our study, at only 6%."
   
   https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/395-495-2009-fall/fuzz-revisited.pdf
   
   It's a real shame that the authors of the study made many errors and also compared GNU coreutils running on a proprietary Unix with GNU coreutils running on GNU/Linux without even realizing that, but the results speak for themselves.
   
   Unless the specific binary was compiled wrong, GNU software hasn't ever failed me thus far.