On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:02:50PM -0400, Ryan Bloom wrote: > > Hmm... I haven't looked at the new test stuff, but I wonder how it's > > going to deal with the testshm* tests, since those tests depend on > > fork() and exec() to work. > > Those test will be re-written when I get to them, so that they are > cross-platform. The tests for external APIs are not very useful if they > aren't portable.
Well, there are two issues here: 1) Anonymous shared memory requires fork() and exec() (at this time). 2) Shared Memory implies a minimum of two processes. If the test program is all one program, how will we prove that multiple different programs are able to attach to the same segment? -aaron
