On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 08:46 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Jeff can you help out with generic/484? > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 07:00:59AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > > > do you remember the story behind xfstests generic/484? That test has > > been failing for me ever since it was added and on every file system > > (which is not surprising given that the functionality isn't file system > > specific). Are we expected to fix the issue in the lock ode? Or did we > > give up on it? > ---end quoted text--- Sorry for not seeing this before. I blame gmail. I didn't actually add this test. I believe Eryu may have added it in response to a bug report and an initial patch that I proposed that turned out not to be the right approach. I'm fine with removing this test. We may eventually want to fix this, but it probably will mean reworking how the file table gets inherited across execve (which is outside my usual wheelhouse). -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
