On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM, CAI Qian<[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [LTP] The Best Practice to Skip Syscall Tests
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:00:32 -0400
>
>> On Friday 21 August 2009 07:57:39 CAI Qian wrote:
>>> Test cases unshare failed to compile on systems without such a
>>> syscall. I am unsure what the best way to handle it. The old ways are,
>>>
>>> * add a kernel version check in the unshare tests code.
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> * add a m4 rule.
>>> * modify the unshare tests code to check if the macro, and add stub
>>>   functions if the macro is false.
>>>
>>> The first approach is unable to handle non-vanilla kernels. The second
>>> approach needs to add stub functions which are unclean. What I would
>>> like to do is,
>>>
>>> * add a m4 rule.
>>> * modify unshare Makefile like this,
>>>
>>>   ifdef HAVE_UNSHARE  <-- if the syscall is present, compile the tests.
>>
>> the configure test should always be there if the code needs new
>> headers (like sys/signalfd.h).  if it's only a new syscall, then the
>> configure test should only be for the new symbol (assuming one is
>> provided).  in all cases, the tests should be compiled.  your proposal
>> doesnt handle the case where the C library is in place, but the kernel
>> is older so returns ENOSYS.
>
> OK, how about those two approaches?
>
> * add a stub C program to check if kernel returns ENOSYS. If so, returns
>  1. Otherwise, 0.
> * add a m4 rule to check the headers or/and functions.
> * if ./configure found all headers and functions, and execute the stub
>  program to return 0, it will set HAVE_UNSHARE.
> * modify unshare Makefile to complie it only if HAVE_UNSHARE set.
>
> or
>
> * add a m4 rule to check the headers or/and functions.
> * if ./configure found all headers and functions, , it will set
>  HAVE_UNSHARE.
> * modify the test code to deal with three situations.
>  * HAVE_UNSHARE = 0
>  * HAVE_UNSHARE = 1 + ENOSYS
>  * HAVE_UNSHARE = 1 + no ENOSYS

Because it wouldn't work for cross-compilation.
Thanks,
-Garrett

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