Re: [Valgrind-developers] execve.c

[Jeroen N. W. <jn...@xs...>]

>
>> Ah that's right. I new there was something wierd about it. Julian
>> and I discussed it and decided it wasn't worth trying to make it
>> work so I think he disabled the test.
>
> We did discuss it and concluded it was too unrepresentative
> of any real program to be worth catering specially for.  But the
> strange thing is I didn't disable it in the regtest system:
>
> sewardj@phoenix:~/VgTRUNK/trunk$ perl tests/vg_regtest none/tests/execve
> execve:          valgrind  ./execve
>
> == 1 test, 0 stderr failures, 0 stdout failures =================
>
> Maybe its loopfulness depends on which directory it is run from.
>

The loopfulness is caused by option --trace-children=yes, which is not
used in the regression test.

Jeroen.