Re: Checking PCP archives - RFC

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

kenj wrote:

> 1. expand the list of things to check for
> 2. write the code (perhaps I'll take this one!)
> 3. turn your evilness volume up to 11 and start creating corrupt
> archives to be added to the qa suite for pmlogcheck to feed on
>
> It would be _really_ good if different people were involved in 1. and 3.

For #3, have you considered writing a general fuzzer?

> [...]  So, in the spirit of the original Unix filesystem, I'm
> proposing an ncheck/icheck (none of you're whimpy fsck in those
> days) tool, pmlogcheck. [...]

Have you considered whether this sort of checking could be added to
libpcp pmNewContext, activated by environment variable or somesuch, as
opposed to a separate tool?

- FChE