> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm interested in writing testcases for fadvise64
> > and posix_fadvise. I'd like to get some hints before
> > starting work.
> 
> Thanks. You will get all hints that you require for
> writing new test cases.

Thank you.

> >
> > Test cases for fadvise64 may should be put at
> > ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fadvise64.
> 
> You are correct. You have to put the corresponding test cases
> source code and Makefile in this directory. By the way, how many
> test cases are you going to write for this syscall ?

At least for each errors(EBADF and EINVAL) for each ADVICE
parameters. But not sure now.

> >
> > How about posix_fadvise?
> > At first sight, I think it should be put at
> > somewhere in ltp/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/.
> > However, it seems that open_posix_testsuite/ comes from
> > posixtest project. So should I contact with posixtest project?
> > Comparing LTP, posixtest is not so active these days. So
> > I wonder where I should submit a testcase for posix_fadvise.
> 
> You should nevertheless go ahead and write it in the posixtest
> format and submit the same to posixtest and cc to LTP-list. We will
> see whether there is any response from posixtest. However we will
> include it inside LTPÅ› OPEN_POSIX_TESTSUITE and will inform them
> about the code changes in POSIXTEST available in LTP, when they
> do their next release. Even if they are not active, we will do the
> backup on their part.

I see.

> >
> > Regards,
> > Masatake YAMATO
> 
> Also please let me know if you are interested to write other test cases
> also (may be for some more missing system calls and so).

I had a plan to write tests for several system calls. However, I've
just found that most of them are already in LTP. So what I can do is
adding more test cases to existed ones.

Masatake YAMATO

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