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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] GDB test suite: Get core files on targets with systemd-coredump
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a0ce4e-d236-2095-0a3f-e2298998cabf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f931bea6-9757-144e-fb9e-cf806f823545@redhat.com>

On 10/17/2017 07:08 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> Not sure, really.  It seems like the "best effort" results in
> racy tests, e.g., if "coredumpctl" returns an old dump, or
> if coredumpctl decides to rate-limit core dump generation (which
> according to the docs, it does).  It very much sounds like that
> can lead to hard to diagnose problems and send GDB hackers tilting
> at windmills.

I should add that I won't oppose this too strongly _if_ we make
the warning not easily lost in the noise, like e.g., maybe tacked
to the end of all test runs, near the final test results summary?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-17 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 18:42 [PATCH 0/2] GDB test suite: Support " Andreas Arnez
2017-09-18 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] GDB test suite: Add helper for locating core files Andreas Arnez
     [not found]   ` <20171007094545.1bba5c51@pinnacle.lan>
2017-10-09 18:46     ` Andreas Arnez
2017-10-11  8:17       ` Kevin Buettner
2017-10-11 14:53         ` Andreas Arnez
2017-10-12 13:47       ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-12 16:48         ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-17  9:22           ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-12 17:00         ` Andreas Arnez
2017-10-13  9:28           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-13 10:56             ` Andreas Arnez
2017-10-17 13:58               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-17 10:06           ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-17 10:01       ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-17 18:21         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-18 11:46           ` Pedro Alves
2017-09-18 18:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] GDB test suite: Get core files on targets with systemd-coredump Andreas Arnez
2017-10-17 10:22   ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-17 17:37     ` Andreas Arnez
2017-10-17 18:09       ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-17 18:14         ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2017-10-17 18:17           ` Pedro Alves
     [not found]         ` <m360bcfo1b.fsf@oc1027705133.ibm.com>
2017-10-19 10:48           ` Pedro Alves
2017-10-23 13:41             ` Andreas Arnez
2017-10-23 14:30               ` Pedro Alves

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