From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-test: Don't try to test atime update
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:34:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tszyj4or.fsf@draig.linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251010121435.3885228-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> (Peter Maydell's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:14:35 +0100")
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> The linux-test test includes an attempt to check the utime and stat
> syscalls by setting the atime and mtime of a file to specific values,
> and then calling stat() to check that the values read back correctly.
>
> Unfortunately this is flaky, as it will fail if some other process
> (for instance a virus scanner, backup program, etc) gets in and reads
> the file between the utime() and stat() call, resulting in a host
> syscall sequence like this:
Queued to maintainer/oct-2025, thanks.
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-16 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-10 12:14 [PATCH] tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-test: Don't try to test atime update Peter Maydell
2025-10-16 10:41 ` Peter Maydell
2025-10-16 12:08 ` Thomas Huth
2025-10-16 12:11 ` Peter Maydell
2025-10-16 14:34 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
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