Re: [PATCH 2/2] GDB test suite: Get core files on targets with systemd-coredump

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 10/17/2017 07:14 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 10/17/2017 07:08 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 
>> Not sure, really.  It seems like the "best effort" results in
>> racy tests, e.g., if "coredumpctl" returns an old dump, or
>> if coredumpctl decides to rate-limit core dump generation (which
>> according to the docs, it does).  It very much sounds like that
>> can lead to hard to diagnose problems and send GDB hackers tilting
>> at windmills.
> 
> I should add that I won't oppose this too strongly _if_ we make
> the warning not easily lost in the noise, like e.g., maybe tacked
> to the end of all test runs, near the final test results summary?

Another approach would be to not run the core tests by default,
unless you specify some 

make check \
 RUNTESTFLAGS="YES_I_KNOW_ALL_ABOUT_SYSTEMD_COREDUMP_RUN_THE_TESTS_ANYWAY_MKAY=1"
option.

(and then the testsuite would print a warning suggesting that.)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves