Dropped. Regards-- Subrata
commit b47b875e00fbea4bb3398ac2f3ef4b4dd32826f0 Author: Subrata Modak <[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 16 20:08:51 2010 +0530 On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 17:00 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > I am not sure about the original intent of pidns03 test case but I think > the test is expected to fail :-( > > The header for this test says: > > * Verify that: > * 1. When parent, clone a process with flag CLONE_NEWPID, see the > * process id of the parent is existing after mounting /proc > > The test passes in the parent-pid from init-pid-ns and looks for that > pid in the child's mount of /proc. > > But for the CLONE_NEWPID child, parent process should appear to have a > pid == 0. The pid of the parent in the initial pid namespace must NOT > be visible to the child - in fact a different process can have that pid. > > I am not surprised the test fails - I am curious to know the version of > the kernel when this test reliably passed - if at all. I tried this on > 2.6.29 and 2.6.34-rc5 and it fails reliably. > > I dug through my history and see that this test was part of a 6-patch set, > We did have some comments on the coding style on the set, but we seem to > have missed the intent of this test :-(. > > Do we have any other history of this test ? If not, I think we should either > drop the test or modify the test to verify the opposite (i.e. verify that > the opendir() in the test fails with ENOENT). > > Sukadev > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Ltp-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
