On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:37:19PM +0200, Zdenek Behan wrote:
> On 05/12/2009 02:28 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
>> BTW, the number of your regression tests for fdisk(s) is ZERO :-(
>>
> ..which is directly proportional to the difficulty of writing any tests
> for this mess. ;) I'll try to think of a way to throw in some tests. A
> quick and simple idea: make *fdisk operate on file streams instead of
> block devices, and create a large set of prepared MBR's for blackbox
fdisk(8) does not require block device (try: fdisk -l disk.img)
> testing (perform an operation, and check the result against the expected
> result using a shell script).
yes, see tests/ directory (for example blkid tests).
> A big problem is faking all the ioctl
> stuff (?).
use scsi_debug kernel module to create fake scsi device where you can
control basic setting (for example block size)
Karel
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