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SubjectRe: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: flush stdout before forking
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> wrote:
> I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
> somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:
>
> $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
> Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
> soft - 0
> hard - NONE
> OK
> Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
> soft - 0
> hard - NONE
> OK
> Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
> soft - 0
> hard - NONE
> OK
> Core dump limits :
> soft - 0
> hard - NONE
>
> This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
> stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
> exits.
>
> A simple workaround is to flush before forking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

Applied and queued for stable!

--
Thanks,
//richard

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