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

Subrata Modak
2009-06-30T14:52:59Z

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 07:41 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Davide for this clarification.

Regards--
Subrata

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>
> - Davide