Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>> Some days before, mitani-san reported some sigaction test failed at linux,
>>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=000001cb798d%241aaa0210%244ffe0630%24%40co.jp
>>>
>>> As Garrett said, add Linux-isms is not advisably. So i want try to fix it 
>>> by another method.
>>>
>>> I have seen the assertions.xml, these tests want to test sigaction with 
>>> SA_RESTART
>>> not sem_wait(it looks like there's a bug at older linux kernel), so i 
>>> suggest to
>>> instead sem_wait by fcntl.
>>>
>>> What about this one?  If you agree with me, i will post other patchs.
>> As far as I understand this, you are trying to avoid a fact, that older
>> kernels are not comforming to the POSIX specification. This is a case
>> where the test is failing for a good reason, all we could do here is
>> print message like:
>>
>> "this test is known to fail on linux kernel < 2.6.22"
>>
>> Before the test reports failure.
> 
> Well... I would actually record these items in a file somewhere. Once
> upon a time the ltp-results@ list was a good source for this data, but
> I don't know how useful this data is anymore or how much/well this
> data is reported and subsequently mined (I'm not on the list for
> instance)...
> 
>> On the other end I do not object to adding test for file locks with
>> SA_RESTART. But you should not remove the sem_lock() test (as it's not
>> broken).
> 
> Agreed.
> 

  Well...
  Then, do you have a plan to do it?

-- 
Regards
Bian Naimeng


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