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Re: New test failures - observer.exp, sigaltstack.exp, siginfo.exp
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:46:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: New test failures - observer.exp, sigaltstack.exp, siginfo.exp
- References: <20040416151243.GA31255@nevyn.them.org> <408550CD.5080902@gnu.org> <20040420164255.GA31037@nevyn.them.org> <40969BC2.3080308@gnu.org>
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:21:38PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >>- the kernel gets fixed to allow writes to this page -> it should be no
> >>>different to other read-only text sections
> >
> >
> >Good luck - I don't think the kernel maintainers will buy it.
>
> Who needs luck? I'm told the page is now marked COW (copy on write) in
> at least fedora core.
Could you point me at whoever implemented that for Fedora, so we can
see about getting the fix into normal Linux sources? I'm not helped by
any GDB test failures fixed in distro-specific kernels.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz