Off-topic: D-Bus in the kernel

Marcel Holtmann marcel at holtmann.org
Fri Sep 17 01:32:26 PDT 2010


Hi Havoc,

> This really needs a conformance suite (or at least basic test suite)
> for dbus-daemon. IMHO writing any variant of the daemon without a test
> suite is essentially crazy. The spec does not really cover the
> daemon's behavior in sufficient detail, and there are a whole lot of
> details. line-by-line the code needs converting to spec and/or tests.

and while at it, we need a fuzzing tool for D-Bus. I meant to write one
since a long time, but never got enough time for it. If anybody is
looking for a hobby project, here is an idea ;)

Regards

Marcel




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