Re: [LTP] [Announce] Strace Test

Robert Williamson
2004-02-16T15:53:39Z

This is awesome Dan! I added the directory into the /tools section of the
LTP and it will be included in the next release. Thanks!

-Robbie

Robert V. Williamson <robbiew@us.ibm.com>
Linux Test Project
IBM Linux Technology Center
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ltp-list-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 02/15/2004 11:22:57 PM:

> Good evening,
>
> I'm happy to announce the initial public release of
> Strace Test. I believe Strace Test is the most
> aggressive general purpose kernel tester available.
> Strace Test generally crashes my system within
> 5 minutes (2.6.1-rc2).
>
> Strace Test uses a modified version of strace 4.5.1.
> Instead of printing out information about system calls,
> the modified version calls the syscalls with improper
> values. A patch and a binary for i386 are included
> in the strace_test tar ball.
>
> Strace Test uses LTP to generate real world syscalls.
> Just unpack ltp and type 'make -k'. You don't
> need to install the test if you don't want to.
>
> The modifications make the test scripts go haywire.
> To keep the test on track we restart it every 10
> seconds. The first script is run as root and it
> spawns off the test as a test user. Every 10 seconds
> root kills off all the test user's processes and
> restarts the test. The actual tests are run with
> user permissions.
>
> Strace Test is available from:
> http://67.113.20.209/strace_test.tar.bz2
>
> Test Instructions (for i386)
> Create a test user
> Download and untar ltp (ltp.sf.net)
> Cd to ltp and `make -k`
> Untar strace_test
> cd strace_test && ./go_go.sh
> Enter the path to ltp
> Enter the test user
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
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