From: zhaogongyi via ltp <ltp@lists.linux.it>
To: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Cc: LTP List <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/fork02: new test for fork()
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 01:05:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0aaeb7d55c194ca79b2958dc8c4e5204@huawei.com> (raw)
Hi Cyril,
>
> Hi!
> > > > Verify that current workdir correctly inherited by child.
> > >
> > > Why test this? Does fork() man-pages menthion this?
> > >
> >
> > Man-pages does not menthion this, and the other field inherited does
> not mentioned too.
>
> I guess that this is described in POSIX in:
>
> "The new process (child process) shall be an exact copy of the calling
> process (parent process) except as detailed below:"
>
> at https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
>
> And there is nothing about working dir in the list of special cases hence
> working dir is exactly the same as for parent since it has to be exact copy
> of parent.
>
It seems reasonable to not test the result of full inheritance from the parent process, otherwise there are a lot of testcases.
Regards,
Gongyi
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2022-11-01 1:05 zhaogongyi via ltp [this message]
2022-11-02 9:06 ` [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/fork02: new test for fork() Cyril Hrubis
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2022-11-16 2:51 zhaogongyi via ltp
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2022-10-31 13:46 ` Cyril Hrubis
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