tests with guru mode and systemtap rpm

William Cohen wcohen@redhat.com
Wed Sep 14 13:56:00 GMT 2005


It is good to see additional tests being put into the SystemTap 
testsuite, e.g. systemtap.samples/tcp_connection. The RPMs that come out 
of the build system are built guru mode disabled. Thus, these tests hat 
require guru mode are going to fail with the SystemTap supplied by RPM.

I would like to put the tests that require guru mode in a separate 
directory (systemtap.guru) to make it easier to analyze the results. 
Right now some who runs the tests (who may be a release engineer rather 
than a systemtap develop) is going to need to look at the individual 
tests to determine why they failed. Having the tests using guru mode in 
this directory would make the explanation of failure much easier.

I hope that a number of these tests/examples can eliminate the use of 
guru mode as tapsets and translator support improves.

-Will



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