Re: [PATCH] tst-ttyname: skip the test when /dev/ptmx is not available

[Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@lukeshu.com>]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 20:30:16 -0500,
Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 
> > > > > It's a restricted environment.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think the glibc test suite is supposed to pass in such an
> > > > environment.
> > > 
> > > It used to work perfectly for at least 15 years, and it still works
> > > when tst-ttyname is fixed.
> > 
> > As tst-ttyname was backported to 2.26 stable branch recently, it
> > introduced this test suite regression there, too, so a fix to tst-ttyname
> > should also be backported.
> 
> I'm more concerned that we still have the failure on Ubuntu 16.04 noted in 
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-11/msg00832.html>, than about 
> failures in a particular restricted environment.  Generally, if there are 
> known unresolved issues around a patch on master, that's evidence it would 
> be premature to backport it to a stable branch.  (Note: I haven't actually 
> verified if the failure on Ubuntu 16.04 is now present on the release 
> branch.)

Yikes!  I didn't notice that reply.  I've just downloaded the Ubuntu
16.04.3 ISO and will look in to that in the next few days.

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Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker