On systems which don't implement sys_execveat(), this test produces a lot of output. Add a check at the beginning to see if the syscall is present, and if not just note one error and return. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.c b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.c index e238c9559caf..b87e4a843bea 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.c @@ -234,6 +234,14 @@ static int run_tests(void) int fd_cloexec = open_or_die("execveat", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC); int fd_script_cloexec = open_or_die("script", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC); + /* Check if we have execveat at all, and bail early if not */ + errno = 0; + execveat_(-1, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0); + if (errno == -ENOSYS) { + printf("[FAIL] ENOSYS calling execveat - no kernel support?\n"); + return 1; + } + /* Change file position to confirm it doesn't affect anything */ lseek(fd, 10, SEEK_SET); -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html