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Re: [PATCH] Add page tests to string/test-strnlen.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
<wainersm@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 03/09/2017 01:28 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> I wonder if any of these
>> mmap-based tests have some way of forcing a page violation (by
>> intentionally accessing beyond the mmap'd area) to test to be sure that
>> an exception actually happens? If the test can't prove the fault will
>> happen, all the other tests are technically inconclusive. (not that
>> it's relevent to the patch you're submitting, I'm just wondering)
>
> Don't know too.
I don't know of code that does specifically this, but debug/tst-chk1.c
has logic that could maybe be repurposed. It's probably the sort of
thing that should be written once and put in support/.
zw