From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31000 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2002 19:51:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30959 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2002 19:50:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Sep 2002 19:50:38 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D5D3DE5; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:50:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D73C106.9060302@ges.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 12:51:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Snyder Cc: Jim Blandy , Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Jim Blandy ] Re: RFA: test GDB's ability to kill threaded programs that die messily References: <3D6EBCB4.B97D8DA3@redhat.com> <20020830004234.GA1540@nevyn.them.org> <3D6FB5A2.351A1D90@redhat.com> <3D6FEE2F.AAF41234@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 >> > Didn't we decide that if there's an unfixed bug, you file a bug report, >> > but you don't check in a test that will fail? > >> >> I've marked up the tests with commented-out setup_kfail forms that >> refer to the bug number, and included the bug number in the test >> name. I thought that's how we'd decided to handle these. > > > OK, your recollection is echoed by Andrew. > I'm happy now. Please check it in. Hmm, thinking about it, the message proper, until setup_kfail is added, should include text like ``(known bug gdb/NNNN)'' so people don't go chasing after known problems. Andrew