On Thursday, December 30, 2010 05:02:45 Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> > this change is fine, but your e-mail client is word wrapping things and
> > munging the patch.  please resend after fixing that.
> 
> Well I'm not against porting testcases to any system, but rewriting all
> occurences of fork() with FORK_OR_VFORK()

we arent rewriting all occurrences.  we are only rewriting ones where the 
semantics allow for either fork or vfork.

> seems like something that
> should be fixed somewhere in system libraries or with LD_PRELOAD.

that wont work since many nommu systems are static only, and transparently 
rewriting fork to vfork is wrong -- it has completely different semantics.

> I know that on uClinux this could be hard to do, however IMHO this
> breaks the rule "don't fix tests to work with broken systems".

the systems arent broken
-mike

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