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On 18 December 2014 at 11:53, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> test the tools with a fuzzer like security/afl

Yes, a very good idea, especially for strings(1) given the way it is
often used. I've already found a strings crash with afl.