On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Subrata Modak
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 18:43 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper [[email protected]] wrote:
>> | On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu
>> | <[email protected]> wrote:
>> | >
>> | > pidns31: mq_open() fails with EACCESS.
>> | >
>> | > pidns31 test case fails with EACCESS - due to the leading '/' in
>> | > mqname. See comments in the patch below for details.
>> | >
>> | > Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
>> | > ---
>> | > Index: testcases/kernel/containers/pidns/pidns31.c
>> | > ===================================================================
>> | > RCS file: /cvsroot/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/pidns/pidns31.c,v
>> | > retrieving revision 1.6
>> | > diff -u -p -r1.6 pidns31.c
>> | > --- testcases/kernel/containers/pidns/pidns31.c 14 Nov 2009 23:58:26 
>> -0000      1.6
>> | > +++ testcases/kernel/containers/pidns/pidns31.c 4 Aug 2010 23:24:54 -0000
>> | > @@ -61,7 +61,14 @@
>> | >  char *TCID = "pidns31";
>> | >  int TST_TOTAL = 1;
>> | >
>> | > -char *mqname = "/mq1";
>> | > +
>> | > +/*
>> | > + * NOTE: The mq_open() interface in glibc requires mqname to start with 
>> a '/'
>> | > + *      and the glibc call skips the leading '/' when invoking the 
>> system
>> | > + *      call. Since we bypass the glibc mq_open() (and use syscall()) we
>> | > + *      define mqname without the leading '/'.
>> | > + */
>> | > +char *mqname = "mq1";
>> | >  int result = TFAIL;
>> | >
>> | >  int errno;
>> | > @@ -264,6 +271,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> | >        }
>> | >
>> | >        syscall(__NR_mq_unlink, mqname);
>> | > +
>> | >        mqd = syscall(__NR_mq_open, mqname, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0777, 
>> NULL);
>> | >        if (mqd == (mqd_t)-1) {
>> | >                tst_resm(TBROK, "parent: mq_open() failed (%s)",
>> |
>> | Did Linux become non-POSIX compliant :) (from
>> | <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/mq_open.html>)?
>>
>> Heh. Good question but I think the mq_open() from glibc is compliant
>> with this. I am just not sure if the call via syscall() needs to be
>> compliant.
>>
>> But if that is a concern, we need a separate a test case for that -
>> pidns31 is using mq_* to test an unrelated feature. I think would
>> make sense to apply this fix, allowing LTP to test the feature even
>> on older distros.
>>
>> Or pidns31 can go back to using the library interface and we could
>> skip the test on old distros.
>
> I would prefer this.

Do I hear someone volunteering to add the required autoconf tests and
tests for this :)?

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