Re: [PATCH] extended ptrace

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:00:13AM -0500, Paul Larson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 11:01, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:33:17AM -0500, Paul Larson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 10:01, Frank Cornelis wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > A new extended ptrace patch is available at:
> > > > 	http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~fcorneli/downloads/devel/exptrace-0.3.1.patch.gz
> > > Do you (or anyone else) have any good tests for this, or even ptrace in
> > > general?  I'm working on some ptrace tests for LTP, but if someone
> > > already has something to contribute it would save me some time. :)
> > 
> > GDB and gdbserver get a good range of it; just pick a couple of the
> > standard tests (to avoid problems with all the GDB bugs the testsuite
> > turns up :).  I have some more precise tests but they're for
> > features that haven't been accepted yet.
> Precise tests that can be automated and ran under our test harness are
> more along the lines of what I'm looking for.  If those features do go
> in, it might be nice to have them in LTP if you don't mind.

No, I mean from GDB's automated regression suite.  Build gdb from
source and 'make check' to see it.  There's a lot of tests which fail
for reasons you aren't interested in, but a lot of them could just be
incorporated.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer