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> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:33:24 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: gdb@sourceware.org
> > 
> >     FAIL: gdb.base/corefile.exp: accessing mmapped data in core file (mapping address not found in core file)
> 
> I don't think I've ever seen this one myself.  The problem could be
> that your ulimit is set such that your system creates truncated core
> files.

"ulimit -c" is set to 200MB.

> This is what makes it so difficult to get the testsuite FAIL-free.
> The sheer number of Linux distributions out there that all appear as
> i386-unknown-linux-gnu to us, makes it very hard to selectively XFAIL
> tests.

Maybe we shouldn't test so many kernel-related issues.

> That said, even on OpenBSD I have been pretty lazy with putting in the
> proper setup_xfails.

One more reason to have the canonical results recorded somewhere.