New test failures - observer.exp, sigaltstack.exp, siginfo.exp

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue May 4 19:46:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:21:38PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >>- the kernel gets fixed to allow writes to this page -> it should be no 
> >>>different to other read-only text sections
> >
> >
> >Good luck - I don't think the kernel maintainers will buy it.
> 
> Who needs luck?  I'm told the page is now marked COW (copy on write) in 
> at least fedora core.

Could you point me at whoever implemented that for Fedora, so we can
see about getting the fix into normal Linux sources?  I'm not helped by
any GDB test failures fixed in distro-specific kernels.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz



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