[CRIU] [RFC PATCH 17/21] zdtm: add the multi-test launcher

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 01:33:16PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > 
> > The only case when we use threads is when some of tests want to run a
> > busy loop during C/R. In this case we spawn a thread (using clone(), not
> > pthreads) for each such test. After C/R we join all threads and do
> > verification in the usual sequential mode.
> 
> Andrey, Cyrill, please, share your thoughts -- the approach here it
> to hijack the compiled test binaries and manually jump the code around
> them. Instead of patching the test .c-s to prepare them for being
> launched as (at least) .so-s. Which way would be more preferred?

I don't understand why we need this at all. What's the point of
having this multi-test launcher? What is the problem with running
tests one by one?