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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH 5/5] syscalls/setpriority01: Use new user id to avoid messing system environment
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:34:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161206103436.GC17241@rei.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5846928B.2010805@cn.fujitsu.com>

Hi!
> > Hmm, why do we run the actuall testcase in the child here? That
> > complicates the whole test far more than it should have.
> > 
> > We can instead just run pause() in the child and run the setpriority()
> > call in the parent with right pid/group/uid. Or did I miss something?
> > 
> 
> Sorry, if we do the actual test in the parent, we have to do the process
> synchronization, because parent needs child to be ready (prctl, setuid...)
> and after every test, child's pause() needs to be waken up by parent, so
> I feel it's more complicated by comparison...

Since we have the checkpoint synchronization in the test library this is
just a matter of calling TST_CHECKPOINT_WAIT() in the parent and
TST_CHECKPOINT_WAKE_AND_WAIT() in the child then finally
TST_CHECKPOINT_WAKE() in the parent.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

      reply	other threads:[~2016-12-06 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-30 12:12 [LTP] [PATCH 1/5] Cleanup && Drop redundant space in safe macros Guangwen Feng
2016-11-30 12:12 ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/5] SAFE_MACROS: Add SAFE_SETPRIORITY() Guangwen Feng
2016-11-30 12:12 ` [LTP] [PATCH 3/5] SAFE_MACROS: Add SAFE_SYSTEM() Guangwen Feng
2016-12-05 14:33   ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-12-06 10:02     ` Guangwen Feng
2016-11-30 12:12 ` [LTP] [PATCH 4/5] SAFE_MACROS: Add SAFE_PRCTL() Guangwen Feng
2016-12-05 14:40   ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-12-15 10:17     ` Guangwen Feng
2016-12-15 10:43       ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-12-15 10:49         ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/4] Cleanup && Drop redundant space in safe macros Guangwen Feng
2016-12-15 10:49           ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 2/4] SAFE_MACROS: Add SAFE_SETPRIORITY() Guangwen Feng
2016-12-15 10:49           ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 3/4] SAFE_MACROS: Add SAFE_PRCTL() Guangwen Feng
2016-12-15 10:49           ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 4/4] syscalls/setpriority01: Use new user id to avoid messing system environment Guangwen Feng
2017-01-04 12:13             ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-11-30 12:12 ` [LTP] [PATCH 5/5] " Guangwen Feng
2016-12-05 14:45   ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-12-06 10:27     ` Guangwen Feng
2016-12-06 10:34       ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]

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