From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27311 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2003 18:40:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27304 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2003 18:40:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2003 18:40:37 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2xW7-0002MX-SR for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:40:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:19:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb Subject: Re: core files in testsuite directory Message-ID: <20030926184035.GC8920@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb References: <20030926174558.GA23276@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00330.txt.bz2 On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:50:47AM -0700, David Carlton wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:45:59 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz said: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:44:06AM -0700, David Carlton wrote: > > >> * What should the new cleanup function do? Should it just try to > >> remove core.*? Or should it be passed the PID of the process in > >> question, and only try to remove core.PID and core? > > > Check um... corefile.exp? Which does the former, I believe. > > Yeah, but it's a special case: it runs in a subdirectory to make > cleanups easier. It looks for core.* but only uses it if there's > exactly one match for the regexp; that makes using that regexp safe, > but I don't think the single match restriction would work well in > general. If the other tests _are_ supposed to generate core files (I don't know), then they should probably run in similar subdirectories. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer