Re: Add jail execution environment support to the FreeBSD test suite

On 23-02-24 16:08, Igor Ostapenko wrote:
> On Friday, February 23rd, 2024 at 10:30 AM, Paul Floyd <paulf2718@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Will there be an option to turn this off globally?
>>
>> I sometimes run test suits with Valgrind. I'm not aware of any option to
>> do that cleanly so I just do it with brute force: run kyua and all
>> children under Valgrind.
>>
>> valgrind --trace-children=yes -q kyua test -k Kyuafile
>>
>> Adding jails into the mix is likely to give worse results. I did try
>> using an x86 jail as an alternative to VirtualBox but I gave up as I got
>> too many test failures.
>>
> 
> Thanks for your attention and mention of your use case.
> 
> I've added this point to my TODO. I guess it could look as the following:
> 
> 	valgrind --trace-children=yes -q kyua -v execenv=host test -k Kyuafile

Sounds good, but I'd need to test in order to make sure. I don't run 
that kind of test very often.

> 
> Does it look like something that would cover your production needs?

It's not to test FreeBSD for prod, it's to test Valgrind is working with 
all those tests (any FreeBSD errors picked up are a bonus).

A+
Paul