Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] BZ #17645, fix slow DSO sorting behavior in dynamic loader

[Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>]

* Chung-Lin Tang:

> I understand the need to support timeouts, but actually, because of
> the nature of the ld.so sorting tests, where a lot of the action
> happens before/after main(), making the testcase executables use
> support/test-driver.c isn't really that meaningful. In terms of the
> relations, you would need to wrap the entire ld.so into a testcase for
> that to work.

Agreed.  I think having a test without that protection should be fine,
if it indeed runs in a few seconds now.

> Do we already have some support program that embeds
> support/test-driver.c (like a testcase) and allows forking of a
> generic program + command-line? That should allow running the entire
> ld.so with a timeout I suppose. Another method would be to do
> something in the generated shell script wrapper to implement a
> timeout.

Historically, we have used shell tests for that.

Thanks,
Florian