On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/21/2016 12:33 AM, Andy Chu wrote: >> expr is in pending, but ships on Android. > > Yes, that is a significant issue I need to address. However, "issue" > isn't necessarily "the real problem". The _problem_ is I have many > things to do and a finite amount of time/energy to do them, but I'm > working on it. > > Right now I'm trying to get grep to where android can use it, and get dd > cleaned up and promoted out of pending. After that expr is near the top > of the list. > > When you say "a thing in pending is broken" I tend to go "yes, that's > why it's in pending". When you say "prioritize this thing in pending" > what I prioritize is getting it out of pending.
(speaking of which, what's the plan with getfattr/setfattr? are they likely to come out of pending soon, or should i start using them anyway? and did you want me to move their new looping (list|get)xattr functions into lib and use them in cp too, or do you want to do that?) >> I hope that was clear! I thought you were just busy, but I think you >> never really understood what I was saying and what the tools do. > > I want to triage the testing directory, going through the existing tests > command by command and making sure that each test is a good test for the > command. (Are we passing the tests we have? Can TEST_HOST reasonably be > applied? Are we testing everything the command does? Are we testing > interesting failure paths?) > > My major todo item is getting tests requiring root access and/or a known > host environment implemented and working under aboriginal linux images. > (For "top" I may need a snapshotted /proc directory in a tarball, and > /proc symlinks switching from directory to directory with somesort of > synchronization mechanism. I probably have to create a pty, run top with > an essentially infinite timeout, and feed a space through the pty to > force a rescan, and also make sure the code is taking its timing info > from the proc data not from calling gettimeofday() or similar so the > test scriptisn't perturbing the output.) > > That can of worms is the kind of thing I'm worrying about when I look at > the test suite. Can I make dummy interfaces in a qemu instance that > ifconfig can attach ipv6 addresses to, and if so can I insulate it from > kernel version skew if I upgrade the kernel version the test is running > under?) > > You instead want to do a major redesign of the testing directory based > on this week's coverity/valgrind variant, which is a different area > entirely and not something I personally ever expect to use. Your > redesign would put me further from _my_ goals, adding significant > complexity I wouldn't use and thus wouldn't regression test and thus > almost certainly would break if I changed anything. (Not just changes in > the testing directory, you add significant complexity to a makefile > that's otherwise mostly just a wrapper around shell scripts in > scripts/*.sh to provide an expected user interface, the way "make > test_sed" is just a wrapper around "scripts/test.sh sed". With your > patch, the makefile seems to be the ONLY way to call some of the new > functionality, and/or your wrappers call the makefile instead of the > other way around.) > >> If there were any parts of my messages that weren't clear, I'm happy to >> clarify. > > I lost about 4 weeks in the past 2 months to $DAYJOB melting, and it's > entirely possible I'll be spending 6 months in San Diego working an > unrelated contract until they get their financial house in order. > > More recently the Con Crud I picked up at Texas Linuxfest seems to have > morphed into tonsilitis (which is disconcertingly like strangling except > my airway isn't blocked, and I keep wanting a 6 hour nap in the middle > of the day). > > I'm working as fast as I can, but I don't necessarily have the same > priorities you do. > >> Andy > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
