On 12.03.2010, at 22:23, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indey...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12.03.2010, at 22:06, Pierre Joye wrote: >> >>> Many tests fail because they are written for a given platform, or even >>> worst (from a portability point of view), only for a given >>> configuration (library version, system version,etc.). And that's not >>> about windows vs other, tests can work on a Debian/ubuntu version and >>> fail on another. >> >> Well, these tests should just be removed/rewritten. >> Php-tests should test php, not libraries > > I would be interested to know how can we test the file API without > testing libc, for example.
see my reply to Stas. The idea is to test things which we can guarantee. If our documentation says, that function does this or that, then we should check for it and wrap system-calls in such way, that our "file API" always does these things or fails in strict predictable manner. And if we can't guarantee some behaviour then we should add corresponding note to documentation and we shouldn't add tests. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
