Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests: use g_test_trap_fork for glib between 2.16 and 2.38

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:23:29PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 16/09/2014 18:20, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> >> > - bumping the minimum required version from 2.12 to 2.16.  I suggest
> >> > bumping to the currently required version for Windows, which is 2.20
> >> > (released March 2009).
> > The commit message for a52d28afb suggests that this bump would be
> > dropping support for RHEL5. That doesn't seem like a great idea
> > to me, especially if it's only for the benefit of a test program.
> 
> Though you would just drop support for "make check" on RHEL5.  Even
> "make -k check" would roughly work.

Probably not too hard to drop the specific test, right?

> > On the other hand your patch doesn't actually bump the required
> > version, so I'm a bit confused.
> 
> Yeah, this is just an RFC.
> 
> Paolo

Message in the glib header hints at some reliability
problems with g_test_fork. Any idea what these might be?