Re: [PATCH 00/17] nolibc: add preliminary self tests

Ammar Faizi
2022-07-20T17:05:28Z

On 7/20/22 11:20 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> What I certainly don't want to do is to have to cross-reference IDs
> with arrays, nor start to stack endless if/else that are even more
> painful to deal with, or have to renumber everything by hand once in
> a while.

Noted.

> But again, I'm open to better proposals. I reached the limits of my
> imagination there, but I do value the ability to "yyp" one line, change
> two arguments and gain one extra test for a different combination, and
> I really do not want to lose that simplicity. Note that for more complex
> tests, it's trivial to add a dedicated function and that's what was done
> for getdents64() which also serves as an example.

OK, I understand the reason behind this now. I and Fernanda will try
to visit this again at around 5.20-rc. *If* we can find a better
design that matches your requirements, we will send you an RFC to
improve it too.

Thank you!

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Ammar Faizi