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From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: update README file to document some recent changes
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:05:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283180712.5273.98.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280771460.2236.68.camel@doink>

On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 12:51 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> Update the README file to document the new _cat_passwd and
> _cat_group functions, and to recommend passing "-n" to
> getfacl(1) so it produces numeric output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Ping?  Trivial change (to README).

> ---
>  README |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: b/README
> ===================================================================
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -160,6 +160,20 @@ Test script environment:
>  				  string DATE for deterministic
>  				  output
>  
> +	_cat_passwd,		- dump the content of the password
> +	_cat_group		  or group file (both the local file
> +				  and the content of the NIS database
> +				  if it is likely to be present)
> +
> +     4. General recommendations, usage conventions, etc.:
> +	- When the content of the password or group file is
> +	  required, get it using the _cat_passwd and _cat_group
> +	  functions, to ensure NIS information is included if NIS
> +	  is active.
> +	- When calling getfacl in a test, pass the "-n" argument so
> +	  that numeric rather than symbolic identifiers are used in
> +	  the output.
> +
>  Verified output:
>  
>      Each test script has a numerical name, e.g. 007, and an associated
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 17:51 [PATCH] xfstests: update README file to document some recent changes Alex Elder
2010-08-30 15:05 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2010-08-30 21:43 ` Christoph Hellwig

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