2008-04-06 23:51:15

by Szabolcs Szakacsits

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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Linux POSIX file system test suite


On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, David Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:33:30AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:29:47AM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> > > The test must be run as root user and requires a few basic Perl modules.
> >
> > And openssl, it appears.

Openssl is replaced with md5sum+cut in the CVS.

It would be also nice to eliminate the Perl dependency ...

> > The current xfs-dev tree:
> >
> > Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > /root/posix/tests/chown/00.t 171 2 1.17% 84 88
> > /root/posix/tests/symlink/02.t 7 2 28.57% 6-7
> > Failed 2/184 test scripts, 98.91% okay. 4/1950 subtests failed, 99.79% okay.
>
> Symlink tests 6 and 7:
>
> expect 0 symlink ${name256} ${n0}
> expect 0 unlink ${n0}
>
> Test 6 is failing with ENAMETOOLONG
> Test 7 is failing (correctly) with ENOENT because test 6 failed.
>
> So there's only one failure here, and that is that that we're rejecting
> ${name256} as too long. I think that getname() is doing this. Seems sane
> to me to disallow symlinking to pathnames that can't be constructed,
> even if POSIX apparently allows it.

As Christoph noted, I also noticed XFS is unique in this behavior.

> Chown tests 84 and 88:
[...]
> So, either result is valid. Hence i suggest that test 84 and test 88
> (same failure) are special cased to "ext3" behaviour.

Done in the CVS.

> That means XFS is not failing any tests at all.

I added the xfs target but left the symlink Test 6 fail because POSIX says

"The string pointed to by path1 shall be treated only as a character
string and shall not be validated as a pathname"

and

"the length of the path1 argument is longer than {SYMLINK_MAX}"

where {SYMLINK_MAX} is typically not defined on Linux or it's {PATH_MAX}.

Szaka

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