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Re: New test failures - observer.exp, sigaltstack.exp, siginfo.exp


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


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