Hi Edjunior,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 20:59 -0300, Edjunior Barbosa Machado wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (I've already posted this message on Open POSIX test suite mailing list, but 
> didn't receive any reply. The list seems dead since last year)
> 
> conformance/interfaces/timer_getoverrun/2-2 has failed on tests with some 
> distros running on ppc64 machines:
> 
> gekko-lp1:~/ltp-full-20080731/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/timer_getoverrun
>  # ./2-2 
> FAIL:  38 overruns sent; expected 75
> 
> As far as I could realize, it happens due to these machines are running 
> kernel with timer frequency configured to 100 Hz, which represents a clock 
> precision smaller than the defined INTERVALNSEC.
> 
> This patch sets the interval equals to the clock precision (retrieved via 
> function clock_getres()), in order to avoid to use a interval smaller than 
> the resolution of the clock. However, with these changes, this testcase 
> becomes very similar to the test 2-3. Is this a valid modification? If not, 
> any thought what should be done in this case?
> 
> Thanks in advance,

However, i will keep this patch inside LTP“s Open_Posix, and hence has
merged your Patch. Thanks.

Regards--
Subrata

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