New test: test/many_looping_threads.c
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
diff --git a/test/many_looping_threads.c b/test/many_looping_threads.c
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+// This testcase, when run with large number of threads
+// under stace -f, may never finish because strace does not
+// ensure any fairness in thread scheduling:
+// it restarts threads as they stop. If daughter threads crowd out
+// the "mother" and _they_ get continually restarted by strace,
+// the end of spawning loop will never be reached.
+//
+// Also, it is a testcase which triggers the
+// "strace: Exit of unknown pid 32457 seen"
+// message when on testcase exit, strace sees deaths of newly-attached
+// threads _before_ their first syscall stop.
+//
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+static int thd_no;
+
+static void *sub_thd(void *c)
+{
+ dprintf(1, "sub-thread %d created\n", ++thd_no);
+ for (;;)
+ getuid();
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ int i;
+ pthread_t *thd;
+ int num_threads = 1;
+
+ if (argv[1])
+ num_threads = atoi(argv[1]);
+
+ thd = malloc(num_threads * sizeof(thd[0]));
+ dprintf(1, "test start, num_threads:%d...\n", num_threads);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
+ pthread_create(&thd[i], NULL, sub_thd, NULL);
+ dprintf(1, "after pthread_create\n");
+ }
+
+ /* Exit. This kills all threads */
+ return 0;
+}