Re: new syscalls

[JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

>"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
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>>>Various new syscalls which are trickling their way Linuswards and will need
>>>testing and wiring up once they get there:
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>>Are there test-suites for any/all of these new calls?
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>That's an excellent point.
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>Guys, architecture maintainers need test suites to verify that the syscalls
>actually work as they wire them up.  Please share.  A stable URL would be
>preferred - something which can go into the changlog or conceivably into
>the kernel source.
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>Thanks.
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Hi Andrew,

I apologize for not sending out the unshare test program by Friday as I had
promised. I got distracted with a strange problem with rmdir. Steve Grubb
first noticed it while testing the pam module that uses unshare. I was 
able to
reproduce the problem with one of my unshare testcases as well. Initially
I suspected the unshare code, however the problem appears to be in the
base code. I am doing some additional debugging now, so I can narrow
down the release/patch that introduced the problem. Once I gather useful
information, I will email Ram Pai and Al Viro with the appropriate
information (hopefully by tonight) and a small test program that can
reproduce the problem. My new ETA for unshare test is by tomorrow
night.

Thanks.

-Janak