Re: [DTrace-devel] [PATCH 1/6] test: Skip tst.depth.sh

[Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>]

On 31 Mar 2026, eugene loh told this:

> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
>
> The test asks for very many pid probes.  E.g.,
>
>         pid$target:::entry,
>         pid$target:::return,
>         pid$target:a.out::,
>
> If it is successful, this can wreak havoc on some systems, in some cases
> leading to 1-2 dozen subsequent tests failing due to cascading problems:
> poor test clean up, triggers left running, persistent loads, pid=0 not
> running, tests timing out, and so on.  These problems require
> investigation.
>
> For now, skip the precipitating test.

This sort of thing is what the tagging system is for. This should
probably be a default-skipped tag instead:

@@tag: skip-default

And add

!skip-default

into test/tags.default (not currently existing).

(The same is probably true of most of the other remaining skipped
tests.)

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