I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:
$ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
OK
Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
OK
Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
OK
Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.
A simple workaround is to flush before forking.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.com>
---
arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c
index 47f1ff0..22a358e 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ static int start_ptraced_child(void)
{
int pid, n, status;
+ fflush(stdout);
+
pid = fork();
if (pid == 0)
ptrace_child();
--
1.9.1
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