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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: Re: new syscalls
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
>>
>> How sophisticated this has to be?
>
> umm
>
> - test basic functionality
>
> - test things which should fail: syscall arguments out-of-bounds,
>  negative syscall args, etc.  invalid fd.  valid fd but for the wrong type
>  of file.
>
> - if you can, something which will test the 32bit->64bit->32bit
>  conversions which 32-bit userspace on 64-bit kernel needs to do.

Somehow, I knew I didn't have to ask :)



- Davide