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List:       ltp-list
Subject:    Re: [LTP] [PATCH] [syscalls] getrusage03: test ru_maxrss
From:       Caspar Zhang <czhang () redhat ! com>
Date:       2011-05-20 16:12:02
Message-ID: 4DD692D2.4030407 () redhat ! com
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On 05/20/2011 09:29 PM, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
>>     [Un]fortunately we don't (I say that because writing something
>> functional would be kind of a pain because we'd need to replicate what
>> tar does with that file mode, permissions bits, and other fun security
>> attributes in order to be complete).
>>     Does this need to be run from the current working directory, or
>> can it be picked up from $PATH ? If the latter is ok, then all you
>> need to do is add $LTPROOT/testcases/bin to $PATH (which should be
>> done already by runltp) and use execvp, or you could play tricks and
>> lookup the dirname of the realpath, etc of the testcase (argv[0]), and
>> use that in the execle, etc call.
> 
> All the child does here is allocating memory, so I would say execvp() is
> good enough in this case. (And adding note about this into style-guide
> would be great).
> 
Thanks Cyril and Garrett, I think execvp can meet my needs, I'll try it
and update the patch later on.

Caspar

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