[Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>] Re: RFA: test GDB's ability to kill threaded programs that die messily

[Andrew Cagney]

> Jim Blandy wrote:
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>> 
>> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
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>> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:30:44PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
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>> > > Jim Blandy wrote:
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>> > > >
>> > > > Okay --- I've committed the portable thread compilation support that
>> > > > this patch depends on.  May I commit this test?
> 
>> > >
>> > > The test is fine.  But I missed the fix.  Has a fix been committed?
>> > > If you wouldn't mind, could you give me a pointer?
> 
>> >
>> > I don't think there is a fix; this test is related to the same PR as my
>> > ugly warning workaround.
> 
>> 
>> Yes, there is no fix.
> 
> 
> Didn't we decide that if there's an unfixed bug, you file a bug report, 
> but you don't check in a test that will fail?

This is why we're introducing KFAIL (I think some doco needs to be 
updated).  In the mean time, I'm not sure what the maintainer policy is. 
  I believe its to include a line like:

	# setup_kfail gdb/NNNN

just before the test.

Andrew