approaching 4.5.21 release

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> i can easily test alpha/arm/hppa/ia64/ppc/ppc64/s390/sh/sparc, but without any
>> sort of `make check`, my tests tend to consist of `strace ls` and `strace ps`
>> and be like "i guess that looks ok".
>
> The other important thing to check is some -f cases.  Doubly so for this
> release, where we have a major change in the methodlogy for -f support on
> modern Linux kernels.  The trivial thing I always test is:
>        strace -f /usr/bin/time /bin/true
> which just makes sure that a basic fork+exec gets tracked.
> It's important to test some multithreaded case too, but I don't
> have a simple suggestion for that off hand.

thanks ... i sometimes run `strace -f env ls`, but i that just tests
the exec and not the fork
-mike