Re: [LTP] LTP's filecaps test gives false positive results

[Rishikesh K Rajak <risrajak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:14:12AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>     Yes -- and I think this is because the constants no longer have
> the same name:
> 
> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/include/linux/prctl.h?v=linux-2.6#L68
> 
>     Note -- CAP_BSET_DROP should be: PR_CAPBSET_DROP, etc.
> 
>     Which is why I stress _not_ putting these hardcoded constants in
> test files (POLLHDRDUP -- or whatever it was in ppoll01 -- is the only
> real violation I can remember OTOH that I need to clean up
> eventually). We need to be consistent with any and all documentation
> provided to end-developers or we [LTP] are going to shoot ourselves in
> the foot if and when the underlying functionality changes.
>     I'll update the tests this weekend, but I would like it if someone
> test the tests on an outdated distro (RHEL 4.x?) once I provide a

Hi Garret,

Can you please look this again ?

-Rishi

> patch to ensure that nothing's being regressed. Based on some really
> simple inspection it appears that these tests are compatible only with
> libcapability 2.x+, but I could be wrong...
> Thanks,
> -Garrett
> 

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