Changeset 1597 for zzufTweet

Timestamp:

Jan 7, 2007, 1:39:30 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Sam Hocevar

Message:

• Added a note about statically linked binaries and one about getc().

File:

• zzuf/trunk/doc/zzuf.1 (modified) (2 diffs)

zzuf/trunk/doc/zzuf.1

@@ -233 +233 @@
 as an unprivileged user.
 .PP
+For the same reasons, \fBzzuf\fR will also not work with statically linked
+binaries. Bear this in mind when using \fBzzuf\fR on the OpenBSD platform,
+where \fBcat\fR, \fBcp\fR and \fBdd\fR are static binaries.
+.PP
 Though best efforts are made, identical behaviour for different versions of
 \fBzzuf\fR is not guaranteed. The reproducibility for subsequent calls on
@@ -242 +246 @@
 according to the file format, to swap bytes, etc. More advanced fuzzing
 methods are planned.
+.PP
+\fBZzuf\fR will not work properly with applications using \fBgetc\fR() on
+platforms where it is defined as a macro, such as OpenBSD and FreeBSD,
+because it is unable to intercept calls to \fBgetc\fR().
 .PP
 As of now, \fBzzuf\fR does not really support multithreaded applications. The