On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > For what Amaury is talking about, what you can test is that the higher > layers of the IO stack (e.g. BufferedReader) correctly pass the new > flags down to the RawIO layer. You're correct that you can't really > test that RawIO is actually passing the flags down to the OS. However, > if you have a way to check whether the filesystem in use is ZFS, you > may be able to create a conditionally executed test, such that correct > behaviour can be verified just by running on a machine that uses ZFS > for its temp directory.
On further thought, the test should probably be unconditional - just allow a ValueError as an acceptable result that indicates the underlying filesystem isn't ZFS. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
