On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:35:36AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:47:07AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > > This test tries to reproduce (with a moderate chance of success on ext4) > > a race condition where a file could be created in a directory > > concurrently to an encryption policy being set on that directory, > > causing the directory to become corrupted. > > Why can't this be done with shell loops rather than requiring a > helper application? > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx That's what I tried originally, but the race was too difficult to hit with the overhead of execing a program for every mkdir and ioctl syscall. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
