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This is a great initiative and one that I would to be able to be a part of but I have such a hard time coming up with things to do. I have only made a few contr
by orng 12y ago
This is a great initiative and one that I would to be able to be a part of but I have such a hard time coming up with things to do. I have only made a few contributions to open source projects previously and all those were cases where I was using some open source library with limitations or flaws that I had to fix in order to be able to use them in my software and where I fixed them first for me and then decided to share them back with the world. In many cases I added or modified functionality through multiple checkins that amounted to rather large pull requests. I just have a hard time seeing how I will be able to a) find anything worthwhile to contribute and b) be able to do so every day.
- groks 12y agoHere are 179 basic Linux utilities... rpm -ql binutils coreutils moreutils moreutils-parallel \ findutils diffutils sharutils psutils \ pciutils iputils elfutils | grep -E /usr/s?bin ...some of which likely have parsing bugs which can be automatically identified with this fuzzer discussed on HN recently: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ Also, an exciting opportunity to discover what the 'pee' and 'sponge' commands do.