On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:07:56 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:24:58AM +0100, David Disseldorp wrote: > > Hi Darrick, ... > > IIUC we currently only depend on python for the fio perf tests and > > btrfs/154 . My preference would be to not see it spread further > > I don't appreciate your dismissal of the patch before I've even posted > it! Alright, fair enough. I apologise for that. > The fstests README clearly lists python3 as a dependency. Argument > parsing and xattr calls are provided by the base python3 runtime. No > third party libraries are required for this new program, and if they > were, they'd be added to the README. > > > (especially if it's just to shave off a little runtime), mostly because > > it's a pain for dependency tracking. > > Perhaps you could use perl's syscall(SYS_fsetxattr(), ...)? Well, that or > > Raw system calls are a terrible idea for maintainability. You'd > *seriously* rather I open-code the glibc xattr wrappers and make the > fstests community maintain that for the sake of your preference? That's not what I said my preference was. > > rewrite it again in awk ;-P > > WTAF? <sigh>
