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Re: core files in testsuite directory
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:50:47AM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:45:59 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:44:06AM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
>
> >> * What should the new cleanup function do? Should it just try to
> >> remove core.*? Or should it be passed the PID of the process in
> >> question, and only try to remove core.PID and core?
>
> > Check um... corefile.exp? Which does the former, I believe.
>
> Yeah, but it's a special case: it runs in a subdirectory to make
> cleanups easier. It looks for core.* but only uses it if there's
> exactly one match for the regexp; that makes using that regexp safe,
> but I don't think the single match restriction would work well in
> general.
If the other tests _are_ supposed to generate core files (I don't
know), then they should probably run in similar subdirectories.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer