Re: [RFA]: File-I/O patch, testsuite

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:51:05PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >However, this tests are currently running always, regardless if the
> >target implements this functionality or not.  I'm not quite sure
> >about the best way to skip these tests for those targets...
> 
> I was going to suggest:
> 
> ># test only on a remote target board
> >if {! [is_remote target]} {
> >    return
> >}

Yeah, we could add this.  Sounds about right.

> but it doesn't hurt to have this run native (should work?).

It doesn't make any sense, though. :-)

> I don't understand why:
> 
> +catch "system \"chmod -f +w dir2.fileio.test\""
> +catch "system \"rm -rf *.fileio.test\""
> 
> appears twice.

Paranoid mode.  The catches removes all files produced by the fileio tests
of a previous testsuite run and it does so at the end to not let them
hanging around when the test finishes.  The test itself needs to have
a clean start, otherwise it produces a couple of annoying FAILs.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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