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From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Shivam Chaudhary <cvam0000@gmail.com>, selftests@ellerman.id.au
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Selftest to test fork() syscall
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:45:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <237ef4e1-786a-41d4-919d-9907bc76263f@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241022204215.61256-1-cvam0000@gmail.com>

On 10/22/24 14:42, Shivam Chaudhary wrote:
> This test verifies the correct behavior of the fork() system call,
> which creates a child process by duplicating the parent process.
> 
> The test checks the following:
> - The child PID returned by fork() is present in /proc.
> - The child PID is different from the parent PID.
> - The memory allocated to a variable in the child process is independent
>    of the parent process.

Short log should incude the subsystem:

e.g: selftests: add test for fork() syscall

In anycase, I don't see any value to adding this test.
fork() is a heavily used system call.
  
thanks,
-- Shuah

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-23 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-22 20:42 [PATCH] Add Selftest to test fork() syscall Shivam Chaudhary
2024-10-23 20:45 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2024-10-23 21:11   ` Shivam Chaudhary
2024-10-23 22:06     ` Shuah Khan

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