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Make a fuzzer for the `wt.exe` commandlines

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#4,169 opened on Jan 9, 2020

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Description

We should probably make a fuzzer for this.

Originally posted by @miniksa in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/4023

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Examine the command line parsing code in the Terminal project, identify input points, and implement a fuzzer using a library like libFuzzer to test the wt.exe command line handling.
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cli
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