1) Without the fix, perror() can indicate the actual error(ENODATA). 2) After calling perror() and redirecting the output of perror() to a file, errno seems to be set to EINVAL unexpectedly. See the following mail for detailed info: https://www.spinics.net/lists/fstests/msg09675.html Signed-off-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/attr_replace_test.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/attr_replace_test.c b/src/attr_replace_test.c index 23adc07..0720bfd 100644 --- a/src/attr_replace_test.c +++ b/src/attr_replace_test.c @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ #include <sys/stat.h> #define die() do { perror(""); \ -fprintf(stderr, "error=%d at line %d\n", errno, __LINE__); \ +fprintf(stderr, "error at line %d\n", __LINE__); \ exit(1); } while (0) #define fail(...) do { \ -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html