Re: RFC - changes to the test suite

Yao Qi
2013-02-19T06:40:24Z

Tom,
overall, I like it. Two questions below,

On 02/19/2013 01:57 AM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> So, the first question is -- does anybody care strongly about where the
> files end up? And, if you do care, why do you care?

When running testsuite with boardfile native-gdbserver.exp, does
GDBserver need to know the updated location of files? or do we plan to
spawn GDBserver in "./outputs/gdb.DIR/FILE" directory?

>
> I also added an "inotify" mode to the tests so you can easily see which
> tests write files outside of their specified directory. There are still
> a few remaining, I ran out of steam dotting every "i".

What is the motivation of adding "inotify" mode? to monitor the progress
of a given test, or something else?

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Yao (é½å°§)