diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/Changelog.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/env_variables.md | 10 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/Changelog.md b/docs/Changelog.md index 45fbd528..cb6e14b8 100644 --- a/docs/Changelog.md +++ b/docs/Changelog.md @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ sending a mail to <afl-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com>. - big code refactoring: * all includes are now in include/ * all afl sources are now in src/ - see src/README.md - * afl-fuzz was splitted up in various individual files for including + * afl-fuzz was split up in various individual files for including functionality in other programs (e.g. forkserver, memory map, etc.) for better readability. * new code indention everywhere diff --git a/docs/env_variables.md b/docs/env_variables.md index e8129a3f..7d4f6716 100644 --- a/docs/env_variables.md +++ b/docs/env_variables.md @@ -384,6 +384,16 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool: Note that this setting inhibits some of the user-friendly diagnostics normally done when starting up the forkserver and causes a pretty significant performance drop. + + - Setting AFL_MAX_DET_EXTRAS changes the count of dictionary enties/extras + (default 200), after which the entries will be used probabilistically. + So, if the dict/extras file (`-x`) contains more tokens than this threshold, + not all of the tokens will be used in each fuzzing step, every time. + Instead, there is a chance that the entry will be skipped during fuzzing. + This makes sure that the fuzzer doesn't spend all its time only inserting + the extras, but will still do other mutations. However, it decreases the + likelyhood for each token to be inserted, before the next queue entrie is fuzzed. + Either way, all tokens will be used eventually, in a longer fuzzing campaign. - Outdated environment variables that are that not supported anymore: AFL_DEFER_FORKSRV |