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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>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:41:39 -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> <20040504194628.GB17015@nevyn.them.org>
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:46:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
Ping? As of 2.6.8-rc2 this is still not the case in the standard Linux
kernel.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz