From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3020 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2002 19:45:14 -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 2932 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2002 19:45:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.red-bean.com) (66.244.67.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2002 19:45:13 -0000 Received: (from jimb@localhost) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g85JVAo04928; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:31:10 -0500 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Michael Snyder , 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> <3D73C106.9060302@ges.redhat.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3D73C106.9060302@ges.redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.90 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > >> > 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. It's not the chasing down we want to avoid --- we want to encourage that. :) Rather, it's that we want to make clear that this bug is not a regression. I've changed the message from: GDB exits after multi-threaded program exits messily (gdb/568) to: GDB exits after multi-threaded program exits messily (not a regression; gdb/568)