fuzz: also generate the empty string sometimes#6176
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Inspired by uutils#6167, uutils#6175, and the observation that 'echo hello "" world | hd' outputs extra spaces.
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sounds good, thanks :) |
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Inspired by #6167: #6175 is a bug in uutils, caused by an unexpectedly empty string.
Note that the empty string regularly causes interesting behavior:
(uutils already behaves correctly here.)
However, uutils sometimes doesn't behave correctly. To prove my point, I just found this bug merely by inserting the empty string in various places:
I hope this is enough motivation that we should include the empty string during fuzzing.