Re: Checking PCP archives - RFC

[Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/05/13 23:28, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> ...
> (Yes, fuzzing can include structured data, by teaching it the grammar of
> PCP archives but then messing with the productions randomly.)
Frank do you have a pointer to an available toolkit that would be 
suitable for this sort of effort?  I've read about, but never used 
fuzzers.  In the PCP QA suite, the src/mkbadlen script demonstrates the 
sort of deterministic approach I have used and was planning to extend to 
create corrupted archives.
> Sure (though till corruption repair comes online, this could be a few-liner
> program that just uses the hypothetical PM_CTXFLAG_LINT flag).
Or the pmNewContext support for the hypothetical PM_CTXFLAG_LINT flag 
could be a system() call ... 8^)> ... at this point I am not expecting 
any of the pmlogcheck code to end up in libpcp (or any other library).