From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Vorel Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:25:48 +0200 Subject: [LTP] [RFC PATCH] syscalls: Remove getcontext01 In-Reply-To: <20190722091839.GB10580@rei.lan> References: <20190722083356.10142-1-pvorel@suse.cz> <20190722085215.GA10580@rei.lan> <20190722091403.GA12237@dell5510> <20190722091839.GB10580@rei.lan> Message-ID: <20190722092547.GC12237@dell5510> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Hi Cyril, > > > Being deprecated from POSIX is never a reason to remove tests as far as > > > the API is exposed to userspace it should be tested. > > OK, thanks for a clarification. I thought that, but wasn't sure. That's > > why this RFC. Agree with the point + it's still in current glibc. > > BTW Maybe it'd be good to write down this policy + write which glibc versions > > we support, which would answer whether some functionality can be removed in > > given point (we describe goals and mention glibc in old document doc/ltp-howto.{txt,lyx}, > > but IMHO we should update this document remove lyx version and add it to wiki). > I guess that the ltp-howto.lyx should be just removed along with the > man3 directory, generally the doc/ directory could use some cleanup. > Also we do have most of the up-to-date documentation in the > test-writing-guidelines.txt so I we may as well add this kind of > information there. Agree with both. > > > What is the real motivation for this removal? > > Looking over the weekend on tests which does not compile on musl > > (which does not include deprecated functionality). I'll rewrite the test into > > new API and add autotools check. > Ack. thx. Kind regards, Petr