Re: [Bug testsuite/13977] rlimit tests fail as-root portions

[Hien Nguyen <hien@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

I modified the test case to run the rlimit-stack=1 as non-root - and got 
the correct behavior.

--- systemtap.base/rlimit.exp.orig    2013-06-20 20:15:26.641001019 -0400
+++ systemtap.base/rlimit.exp    2013-06-20 20:12:36.795000227 -0400
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@

  # Small STACK limit
  set test "rlimit STACK small"
-if {[catch { exec stap --rlimit-stack=1 -p4 $srcdir/$subdir/rlimit.stp} 
res ]} {
+if {[as_non_root "stap --rlimit-stack=1 -p4 $srcdir/$subdir/rlimit.stp" 
]} {
       pass $test
  } else {
       fail $test





On 06/20/2013 10:30 AM, fche at redhat dot com wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13977
>
> Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> changed:
>
>             What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                   CC|                            |fche at redhat dot com
>
> --- Comment #2 from Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> ---
> Perhaps we should simply disable the as-root variants of the tests, given that
> some of the rlimits are not enforced against root by the kernel.
>