Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/5] package/libc-test: add POSIX functional test extensions

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 06:59:50PM +0000, matt@thewebers.ws wrote:
> From: "Matthew Weber" <matthew.l.weber3@boeing.com>
> 
> Add patch 0002 which provides additional functional test coverage
> for POSIX APIs including:
> - pthread attributes and operations
> - POSIX timers (create, delete, gettime, settime, getoverrun)
> - POSIX message queues
> - Scheduler (priority min/max, rr_get_interval, yield)
> - Time functions (clock_getres, clock_nanosleep, gmtime_r, etc.)
> - Process (execve, posix_spawnattr_setflags)
> 
> These tests exercise musl's implementation of scheduling and IPC
> APIs that are not covered by the upstream test suite.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.l.weber3@boeing.com>
> Signed-off-by: Clayton Shotwell <clayton.shotwell@boeing.com>
> ---
>  .../0002-add-posix-functional-tests.patch     | 6798 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 6798 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/libc-test/0002-add-posix-functional-tests.patch

This is clearly a massive feature patch, that we can't take in
Buildroot before it's accepted upstream.

> 
> diff --git a/package/libc-test/0002-add-posix-functional-tests.patch b/package/libc-test/0002-add-posix-functional-tests.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..402a7811cf
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/libc-test/0002-add-posix-functional-tests.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,6798 @@
> +From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Matthew Weber <matthew.l.weber3@boeing.com>
> +Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000
> +Subject: [PATCH] add POSIX functional tests for pthread, timer, mq, sched APIs
> +
> +Add comprehensive functional test coverage for POSIX APIs including:
> +- pthread attributes (init, destroy, get/set for scope, stacksize,
> +  schedparam, schedpolicy, guardsize, detachstate, inheritsched, stack)
> +- pthread operations (self, sigmask, testcancel, mutex_trylock,
> +  mutexattr, getcpuclockid)
> +- POSIX timers (create, delete, gettime, settime, getoverrun)
> +- POSIX message queues (open, close, unlink, send, receive, notify,
> +  getattr, setattr, timedsend, timedreceive)
> +- Scheduler (get_priority_min, get_priority_max, rr_get_interval, yield)
> +- Time functions (clock_getres, clock_nanosleep, asctime_r, ctime_r,
> +  gmtime_r, localtime_r, difftime, times, tzset)
> +- Process (execve, posix_spawnattr_setflags)
> +- Shared utility header (utils.h) with thread safety and buffer
> +  overflow test helpers
> +
> +Upstream: https://marc.info/?l=musl&m=178593914174006&w=2

This particular link doesn't point to an upstream submission of the
patch.

Thomas
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