Linux Test Project June Release Announcement

Marty Ridgeway writes “The Linux Test Project test suite, ltp-20040603, has been released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 2100+ tests for the Linux OS. Our web site also contains other information such as: test results, a Linux test tools matrix, technical papers and HowTos on Linux testing, and a code coverage analysis tool. We encourage the community to post results, and patches, new tests, or comments/questions to to our mailing list.

• Minor corrections to the NUM_PROCS patch
• Added the ability to pass NUM_PROCS to the -c option for runalltests.sh
• Fix genload in runalltests.sh, it was trying to run it in all caps, but the binary is all lower case.
  Should actually run genload now.
• Patch from Alastair McKinstry to allow LTP to build on Linux/HPPA
• Changes for parameters passed to aio-sparse for correct offsets and restrictions on sizes.
• Add new security tests to syscalls testsuite
• In acl_file_test.c and acl_link_test.c syscalls regarding xattrs are still
  done via syscall, although libc functions are available. Furthermore I found
  out that on older distros for non-intel architectures both attr/xattr.h and
  constants like __NR_getxattr are not available, so in this case the these
  testcases are not built.
• Updates for the DMPAI testsuite ppc64 support.
• Fix failure on rwtest versions rwtest03 and rwtest04 due to mmap running out of resources.
• Made changes to get thread ID vs get PID for NPTL threads for unique filenames where child/parent PIDs are the same.
• Changes to diotest5 and diotest_routines to eliminate random/intermitant failures on data compare.
• Fixed memory leak in mmstress testcase.
• Changed clone02 to use tid instead of pid to eliminate failures on NPTL threads(same PIDs for parent/child)
• Changed fcntl15 getpid to gettid (syscall(gettid)) to get unique thread ID vs common PID in NPTL threads.
• Added adp testcases.”