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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2005-11-02 13:20:55
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I think it harks back to the 1.0.X days where some kind of strange hang happened due to the poor threading support back then. I agree (1) it's nonsensical and (2) it fails on N different machines here too. I think we should remove it. J On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:31, Tom Hughes wrote: > Does anybody know what memcheck/tests/weirdioctl is trying to > accomplish? It looks like whatever it was trying to test is now > defunct anyway and the test itself is nonsense. > > It fetches the terminal attributes for standard input, modifies > them and does some stuff and then restores them. > > The problem is that standard input is not a terminal as the vgtest > file provides a file as standard input, so none of the terminal ioctls > actually does anything (they all fail) and you just get warnings from > memcheck about passing uninitialised data to TCSETA. > > For some reason the results only have one warning but all my machines > seem to print two as expected (there are two calls to TCSETA and both > have undefined arguments because the TCGETA failed). > > Tom |