diff --git a/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs b/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs
index 68e34746ae..125a535101 100644
--- a/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs
+++ b/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //! A fuzzer using qemu in systemmode for binary-only coverage of kernels
 //!
 use core::time::Duration;
-use std::{env, path::PathBuf, process, io::Read, fs};
+use std::{env, path::PathBuf, process, io::{Read, Write}, fs::{self, OpenOptions}};
 
 use libafl::{
     bolts::{
@@ -315,19 +315,19 @@ pub fn fuzz() {
                     println!("Iterations {}",t);
                     let num = str::parse::<u64>(&t).expect("FUZZ_ITERS was not a number");
                     fuzzer
-                        .fuzz_loop_for(&mut stages, &mut executor, &mut state, &mut mgr, num)
+                        .fuzz_loop_for_duration(&mut stages, &mut executor, &mut state, &mut mgr, Duration::from_secs(num))
                         .unwrap();
-                    let mut strbuf = String::new();
-
-                    unsafe {
-                        for i in ICOUNT_HISTORY.iter() {
-                                strbuf.push_str(&format!("{}\n",i));
-                        }
-                    }
-                    match env::var("TIME_DUMP") {
-                        Err(_) => (),
-                        Ok(td) => {
-                            fs::write(td, strbuf).expect("could not write time dump");
+                    if let Ok(td) = env::var("TIME_DUMP") {
+                        let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
+                            .read(true)
+                            .write(true)
+                            .create(true)
+                            .append(false)
+                            .open(td).expect("Could not open timedump");
+                        unsafe {
+                            for i in ICOUNT_HISTORY.iter() {
+                                writeln!(file, "{}", i).expect("Write to dump failed");
+                            }
                         }
                     }
                 },
diff --git a/libafl/src/fuzzer/mod.rs b/libafl/src/fuzzer/mod.rs
index 2640d62564..b3c6c4f39b 100644
--- a/libafl/src/fuzzer/mod.rs
+++ b/libafl/src/fuzzer/mod.rs
@@ -229,6 +229,48 @@ where
 
         Ok(ret)
     }
+
+    /// Fuzz for n iterations.
+    /// Returns the index of the last fuzzed corpus item.
+    /// (Note: An iteration represents a complete run of every stage.
+    /// therefore the number n is not always equal to the number of the actual harness executions,
+    /// because each stage could run the harness for multiple times)
+    ///
+    /// If you use this fn in a restarting scenario to only run for `n` iterations,
+    /// before exiting, make sure you call `event_mgr.on_restart(&mut state)?;`.
+    /// This way, the state will be available in the next, respawned, iteration.
+    fn fuzz_loop_for_duration(
+        &mut self,
+        stages: &mut ST,
+        executor: &mut E,
+        state: &mut EM::State,
+        manager: &mut EM,
+        time: Duration
+    ) -> Result<usize, Error> {
+        if time==Duration::ZERO {
+            return Err(Error::illegal_argument(
+                "Cannot fuzz for 0 duration!".to_string(),
+            ));
+        }
+
+        let mut ret = 0;
+        let mut last = current_time();
+        let monitor_timeout = STATS_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT;
+
+        let starttime = std::time::Instant::now();
+
+        while std::time::Instant::now().duration_since(starttime) < time {
+            ret = self.fuzz_one(stages, executor, state, manager)?;
+            last = manager.maybe_report_progress(state, last, monitor_timeout)?;
+        }
+
+        // If we would assume the fuzzer loop will always exit after this, we could do this here:
+        // manager.on_restart(state)?;
+        // But as the state may grow to a few megabytes,
+        // for now we won' and the user has to do it (unless we find a way to do this on `Drop`).
+
+        Ok(ret)
+    }
 }
 
 /// The corpus this input should be added to