20 May
2024
20 May
'24
7:30 p.m.
Hi Chet,
Is it better to spend time on bugs that will affect a
larger
percentage of the user population, instead of those that require
artificial circumstances that won't be encountered by normal usage?
Those get pushed down on the priority list.
You're talking about pushing unlikely, fuzzed bugs down the prioritised
list, but we're discussing those bugs not getting onto the list for
consideration.
Lack of resources also applies to triaging bugs and I agree a fuzzed bug
which hands over a 42 KiB of dense, gibberish awk will probably not get
volunteer attention. But then fuzzers can seek a smaller test case,
similar to Andreas Zeller's delta debugging.
I'm in no way criticising Arnold who, like you, has spent many years
voluntarily enhancing a program many of us use every day. But it's
interesting to shine some light on this corner to better understand
what's happening.
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Cheers, Ralph.