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| author | Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> | 2007-12-26 17:11:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> | 2007-12-26 17:11:16 +0000 |
| commit | 7968d5e9e9ee3d3fded159b798f8035244378b18 (patch) | |
| tree | 6dd87624478ff7221d2f1c74b438be307a19981e /gdb | |
| parent | a7aa6e1d738cc4df6bec67d65fed95185471b72d (diff) | |
| download | gdb-7968d5e9e9ee3d3fded159b798f8035244378b18.tar.gz | |
* gdb.base/multi-forks.exp: Doc fix.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/multi-forks.exp | 11 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog index 8f561e41fcf..a214ec13536 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2007-12-26 Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> + + * gdb.base/multi-forks.exp: Doc fix. + 2007-12-26 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> * gdb.ada/Makefile.in (EXECUTABLES): Update list. diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/multi-forks.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/multi-forks.exp index 7161be583f2..b607d43d76d 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/multi-forks.exp +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/multi-forks.exp @@ -53,9 +53,14 @@ global gdb_prompt # parent and child of multiple Unix fork() system calls. # -# Inferior program calls fork 4 times. Since each fork -# calls fork 4 times, there will be 16 forks. Each fork -# saves the return values of its own 4 fork calls. +# The inferior program builds a tree of processes by executing a loop +# four times, calling fork at each iteration. Thus, at each +# iteration, the total number of processes doubles; after four +# iterations, we have 16 processes. Each process saves the results +# from its 'fork' calls, so we can tell which leaf a given process is +# by looking at which forks returned zero and which returned a pid: a +# zero means to take the child's branch; a pid means to take the +# parent's branch. # First set gdb to follow the child. # The result should be that each of the 4 forks returns zero. |