[RFA] Run follow-fork tests on Linux

Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
Mon Nov 28 13:01:00 GMT 2005


Mark Kettenis wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:33:48 -0800
>>From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>>
>>This allows the tests "foll-fork" and "foll-vfork" to run on Linux,
>>where they mostly pass.  A little more verbose output from linux-nat.c
>>will fix the remaining failures.
> 
> 
> I think Dan J. and I basically agreed that actually the verbose output
> seen on HP-UX is undesirable.  So we should probably fix the testsuite
> instead. 

I'm happy to go along with that.

 > I think that makes the second chunck of the patch
> unecessary. 

Oh well, it's harmless, and it makes the test strings
consistant.  If that doesn't convince you, it can go.

> Oh, and I really think you should check for *-*-linux*
> instead of *-pc-linux*.

Roger.  Habit, that's what I meant.

> That said I'd like to see these tests enabled on *-*-openbsd3.9 and up
> too.  Feel free to add those.  If you don't I'll consider it to be an
> obvious patch once you've committed the Linux stuff.

I'd rather let you, since I can't easily test it.

Michael



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