Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I often build tools on a tmpfs file system (it's faster), and
> found that parted tests always failed there. That's because it tries
> to open the "device" (a file) with O_DIRECT, and at least the linux tmpfs
> driver always fails with EINVAL in that case.
>
> So here's a patch that makes it work.
> Since the test may require writing in a directory like /tmp,
> to which others typically have write access, it is particularly
> careful about security (see the mkdtemp script below), in case
> "make check" is run by e.g., root.
Great! Good work :-D
Ack. :-)
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