alt Hacker News> uutils now runs the upstream GNU coreutils test suite against itself in CI. That’s the right scale of defense for this class of bug. That's the minimum, it is absurd that they did not start from that!
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aw1621107 • today at 6:01 AM
Looks like they've been doing at some kind of automated comparison against the GNU test suite since 2021 or so [0]?
[0]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/commits/main/?a...
I recall the last time there was a massive bug in the uutils project, it was because the coreutils tests didn't cover some crucial aspect people relied on. Running these tests is useful for compatibility and all, but it won't necessarily catch security issues.