On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:17 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> t1406 specifically verifies that certain code paths fail with a BUG: ...
> message.
>
> In the upcoming commit, we will convert that message to be generated via
> BUG() instead of die("BUG: ..."), which implies SIGABRT instead of a
> regular exit code.
On the other hand, SIGABRT on linux creates core dumps. And on some
setup (like mine) core dumps may be redirected to some central place
via /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern. I think systemd does it too but I
didn't check.
This moving to SIGABRT when we know it _will_ happen when running the
test suite will accumulate core dumps over time and not cleaned up by
the test suite. Maybe keeping die("BUG: here is a good compromise.
--
Duy
