[PATCH] Remove Linuxism from tst-tls-atexit

Szabolcs Nagy szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Wed Jul 15 11:31:00 GMT 2015


On 15/07/15 02:00, Roland McGrath wrote:
> One of the things on my list is to clean up the various test cases that
> rely on signal handling when they are not testing something related to
> signal handling.  It makes those tests unusable on non-POSIX
> configurations (i.e. currently only NaCl) that do not support signals.
> So adding another such case is kind of going backwards.  In this case,
> going from gratuitous Linuxism to just thorough POSIXism is still an
> incremental improvement (it should fix it for Hurd, e.g.).  So that is
> fine for now if it really is unavoidably much harder to write a good
> test without catching a signal.  But still not ideal.

hm i thought assuming posix is the right way to go.

if the tests cannot even assume a conforming posix
environment then what can they?



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