[Bug 226769] [NEW] strace test side-effect hangs selfltest

[Martin Pool]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:51 PM, vila <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
>  While submitting a merge request to pqm, selftest hanged.

Isn't English bizarre? <http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000278.htm>

>  Researching strace and ptrace man pages (and bug #103133) suggests that
>  we may be trying to use strace  in a configuration that was not taken
>  into account in its design.

I think so too, and I said so last time this came up.

I don't think we even have any current code that makes use of the
strace function.  Perhaps the most practical thing is just to disable
or delete it?  If we do want to retain it for use in
testing/profiling, I think it would be reasonable to leave it in but
untested, and allow people to fix it if it is broken when they need
it.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>