Re: [DTrace-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] test: correct file permissions
Kris Van Hees <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2026 21:22:40 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 08:20:10PM -0500, Eugene Loh wrote: > On 1/6/26 00:54, Kris Van Hees wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 11:50:53PM -0500, Eugene Loh wrote: > > > The patch otherwise reads right to me. The tests, however, are not happy. > > > The following tests fail intermittently: > > > > > >    test/demo/script/interp.d > > >    test/demo/script/tracewrite.d > > >    test/unittest/lockstat/tst.lockstat-summary.d > > >    test/unittest/scripting/tst.arg0.d > > >    test/unittest/scripting/tst.basic.d > > >    test/unittest/scripting/tst.trace.d > > > > > > These tests fail consistently: > > >    test/unittest/scripting/tst.assign.d > > >    test/unittest/scripting/tst.pgid.d > > >    test/unittest/scripting/tst.pid.d > > > The problem for these tests is > > >    -#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -qs > > >    +#!dtrace -qs > > > Since these files used to be invoked as scripts, the -q was ignored. The .r > > > files relied on that. So the interpreter files should drop the -q. That > > > does not fix them entirely; it simply makes their failures intermittent. > > Yes, I caught (I think) all of the opposite cases where I added a pragma to > > ensure that the -q behaviour was retained, but I don't think I considered the > > case where the script was not invoked using the #! and that therefore the -q > > was not actually effective. > > > > > I'll look more at the intermittent failures, but there may be more than one > > > thing going on there. (lockstat-summary looks different) > > Thanks. > > The intermittent failures were weird, but that lockstat-summary.d should > also fail is just plain insane. The problem actually appears to be with a > different patch. So, I'm withdrawing the "intermittent failure" complaint > about this patch, which should be ready for a final version. Elsewhere, > I'll report on what's really going on. Yes, I believe it is due to: [3/4] bpf: allocate the buffers BPF map to fit highest CPU id I must have introduced a bug in that patch.