Re: [ECOS] ROMFS in anoncvs

[Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>]

On 13-Jul-2001 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:05:23PM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> A little harsh;  perhaps open() calls for nested paths fail.
>> 
>> It does look like you are correct about the mode stuff.
> 
> The filesystems root directory, is not a directory, and so it fails
> imeadiatly with my test program.
> 

Odd - these definitions have been current in the tree for a year.

Perhaps my iPAQ demo works because it doesn't use pathname separators
(i.e. all the files are in the topmost directory and I just use the name)

>> The two things
>> I see to be done are:
>>   * Change 'mk_romfs' to perform some mapping from the host file system modes
>>     to those used by eCos.  
> 
> I sent a patch to Jifl last night.

We also got a patch from Richard Panton, the original contributor.

> 
>>   * Improve the test program so that it can be run automatically, thus
>>     allowing it to be tested more thoroughly by our test farm.
> 
> I've got some test code embedded in a synthetic application. I will
> try to hack it into a standalone test.

Thanks.