Re: [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] lib: Print tcnt in tst_{brk,res}()

[Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>]

Hi!
> > > This looks good to me. Maybe we can also color the setup/lib/test
> > > differently if the output goes into the terminal.
> 
> 
> > And in order to make it work in the shell as well we would need a
> > function tst_set_context() that would set the current context so that we
> > can call it from shell. I suppose that this needs to be designed
> > carefuly in order to make ti work properly with threads/forked
> > processes.
> 
> How about having enum with few states (lib, setup, test, cleanup), which would
> be switched when context switches (and test_get_state() would just print the
> string). And test would get the number (idea from this patch).
> 
> I'm still missing how to call C API code from shell test, because C API code
> forks child and execute the script, how it could "talk back"?

Same as the test results the enum would have to be stored in shared
memory and updated with atomic operations.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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