Re: [LTP] [PATCH] Run the eventfd test in a temporary directory, because it creates some files

Davide Libenzi
2009-06-30T14:59:33Z

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Subrata Modak wrote:

> Jiri,
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 14:39 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 14:48 +0100, Jiri Palecek wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > the eventfd test creates some files in the current directory. I think it should be creating the files in a temporary directory instead, as is already the standard with other LTP tests, because the current might be nonwriteable and the user might not want the files left there.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Jiri Palecek
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@web.de>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Recently i have seen some patches on LKML from Davide on the change for
> > eventfd() interface. Could you please verify how they will affect our
> > tests, and, make changes if necessary ?
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/24/590,
>
> Any thoughts for this ?

No worry. It is the internal (kernel) interface that will eventually
change. Userspace will not be affected by it.

- Davide