Chapter 18. 12h00 - NPTL Stabilization Project

NPTL Stabilization Project

Tony F. C. Reix

project [i think]: http://nptltracetool.sourceforge.net/

Mostly a "reporting" session to describe the work his group has been doing on testing the NPTL library, and to ask the community for help. So far they're written over 2000 tests which check a range of things including stress testing and conformance to the relevant POSIX standards. Like the presenters pointed out: "NPTL testing is better than trying to debug threads with a debugger".