From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19784 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2004 21:41:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19777 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2004 21:41:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Aug 2004 21:41:42 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1BtvQB-0005rB-N6; Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:41:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: New test failures - observer.exp, sigaltstack.exp, siginfo.exp Message-ID: <20040808214139.GA22430@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20040416151243.GA31255@nevyn.them.org> <408550CD.5080902@gnu.org> <20040420164255.GA31037@nevyn.them.org> <40969BC2.3080308@gnu.org> <20040504194628.GB17015@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040504194628.GB17015@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00126.txt.bz2 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