Add option for regular stats file updates #525
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Honggfuzz updates the stats file only when an increase in coverage (edge, pc, cmp, hw) counters is observed. The stats file includes metrics such as
total_exec
andexec_per_sec
that are interesting to observe regularly to programmatically monitor the progress of a fuzzing run when honggfuzz is run in a pipeline or from a tool that observes the stats file. This PR adds an option to specify an interval in seconds to update the stats file regardless of coverage increases. This is similar to theAFL_FUZZER_STATS_UPDATE_INTERVAL
environment variable for AFL++.More specifically, the responsible function
fuzz_perfFeedback
is adjusted as follows:LOG_I(...)