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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>, Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>,
	Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tst: Add test for utime
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 10:41:14 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e5c342c-77ff-6024-fe3c-fde015e40048@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ft199wf9.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>



On 05/03/2021 17:29, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adhemerval Zanella:
> 
>> Maybe fix the kernel or/and use a non buggy FS instead? IMHO the test is
>> doing *exactly* is meant to do: trigger and expose an unexpected return
>> from the kernel or the libc. I don't think hiding it using a different
>> FS is the right thing to do on glibc testsuite.
> 
> I disagree: We want to test glibc here, not file systems.  Test outputs
> are already difficult enough to interpret.  We should not add known
> FAILs that are very difficult to fix (reformat & reinstall with another
> file system is definitely in that category).

My take is since we are the first step to drive the proper y2038 support
and it has time limit, it is better to fail hard and signal something
is wrong either with glibc or kernel *now* so we iron out the issues
instead of fail once users actually deploy glibc on system that are meant
to handle y2038 issues.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-08 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-25  0:35 Lukasz Majewski
2021-02-25 12:16 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-02-27 21:38   ` Lukasz Majewski
2021-03-01 18:32     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-04 16:17 ` Arjun Shankar
2021-03-04 16:22   ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-04 16:31     ` Lukasz Majewski
2021-03-04 23:58   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-05 20:29     ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-08 13:41       ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2021-03-08 13:46         ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-08 13:55           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-08 14:00             ` Florian Weimer

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