Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 RFC 4/9] qemu-iotests: fix test 039

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 2014-11-13 at 11:36, Mao Chuan Li wrote:
> For successful execution of case 039, core dump need be
> disabled. Just running "ulimit -c 0" command is not enough when the
> /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern indicates to pipe the dump to another
> application. So we must erase the pattern in addition to the ulimit
> command.
>
> Reviewed-by:   Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mao Chuan Li <maochuan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   tests/qemu-iotests/039 | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/039 b/tests/qemu-iotests/039
> index 84c9167..bb9382a 100755
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/039
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/039
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ status=1	# failure is the default!
>   _cleanup()
>   {
>   	_cleanup_test_img
> +    _restore_core_pattern
>   }
>   trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
>   
> @@ -41,6 +42,8 @@ trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
>   . ./common.rc
>   . ./common.filter
>   
> +_erase_core_pattern
> +
>   _supported_fmt qcow2
>   _supported_proto file
>   _supported_os Linux

Do you really want the user to be root to execute the iotests?

Max