On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Subrata Modak >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jeff, >>> >>> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:45 -0400, Jeff Burke wrote: >> >> [...] >>> >>> There should not be a failure for Build/Install when Kernel is >= >>> 2.6.22, when this syscall was introduced. May be we need to check out >>> why it failed to build/install. > > Michael, > Any idea why it would report a build/install failure?
Sorry, no, since I don't know what Subrata has done to LTP-ify it. >>> The know failures are, out of 99 scenarios that Michael was testing, >>> roughly 33 of them were failing on 2.6.25. >> >> The long story is here: >> >> http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-wrong-with-kernel-userland_30.html > > Thanks for the information >> >>> And Michael was working with >>> the syscall developer >> >> Actually the original developer was not must to be heard from. But >> Miklos was helpful. >> >>> to get those fixes, and he himself gave some >>> fixes. >> >> My set of four patches was merged into 2.6.26-rc9, so everything that >> I know of should be fixed Real Soon Now. > > OK so it looks like this test will fail with any kernel prior to 2.6.26-##. Yes. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
