On 2 Jan 2003, Karl Fogel wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are two ways to resolve this bug. You can create a feature macro > > APR_FILE_OPEN_DIRS, which means that apr_file_open will work on > > directories, or you can make apr_file_open fail to open directories on > > Unix. In the meantime, leave the failure in the test suite. It is > > highlighting a problem. > > I'm not very familiar with the APR test framework, so pardon me if the > answer to this is obvious: do we have an XFAIL mode available? If so, > we should be using it here. > > If a test failure reveals a bug, the bug should be recorded in the > appropriate place (um, "the issue tracker"... :-) ). If we then > switch the test to "eXpected Fail", that reduces the noise level so > that test won't interfere with our seeing other failures. (And in the > issue, just record that there is a test, and that it needs to be > changed from XFAIL to PASS when the bug is fixed.)
We don't currently have an XFAIL mode, although it would be possible to add one. I will try to add that feature tonight. Ryan
