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Re: First setup observations
- From: Mike Cvet <mcvet at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Cc: frysk at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:41:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: First setup observations
- References: <1150718086.2437.22.camel@elsschot.wildebeest.org>
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 13:54 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Following the Build instructions for FC5 I came across the following
> issues:
> - PASS: frysk2595/ptrace_peek_wrong_thread
> - Is this still necessary?
> Reading some of the discussions about this it seems that this
> is not really a kernel bug and that the Frysk code now does all
> ptrace calls from the same thread.
Yup, you are correct; the ptrace calls are done from the same thread now
and we have worked around this particular problem; the above can
probably be removed soon.
> - With all prerequirements installed the build does go smoothly. Yeah!
cool!
> - Make check always give one failure:
> ( testTerm(frysk.proc.TestTaskTerminateObserver))
> with either the latest FC5 kernel (2.6.16-1.2133) or with the kernel
> from people/cagney (2.6.16-1.2127)
Thanks for the heads-up; fixed it this morning.
> - With kernel 2.6.16-1.2127_FC5.frysk there are two XPASSes (which stop
> make check for continuing):
> XPASS: frysk2595/ptrace_peek_wrong_thread
> XPASS: frysk2595/ptrace_before_forked_thread_exits
If you run these tests on a plain kernel, they should XFAIL as expected behaviour.
Thanks,
Mike