On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: >> i can easily test alpha/arm/hppa/ia64/ppc/ppc64/s390/sh/sparc, but without >> any >> sort of `make check`, my tests tend to consist of `strace ls` and `strace ps` >> and be like "i guess that looks ok". > > The other important thing to check is some -f cases. Doubly so for this > release, where we have a major change in the methodlogy for -f support on > modern Linux kernels. The trivial thing I always test is: > strace -f /usr/bin/time /bin/true > which just makes sure that a basic fork+exec gets tracked. > It's important to test some multithreaded case too, but I don't > have a simple suggestion for that off hand.
thanks ... i sometimes run `strace -f env ls`, but i that just tests the exec and not the fork -mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
