On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 02:50:33PM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote: > Our logger tests fail if it can't connect to /dev/log. I'd like to fix > that case for the test-suite but have some questions: > > 1. It was confusing for me to figure out the actual > problem. Maybe --no-act and/or --stderr should imply > that --socket-errors=auto turns error printing on? Hmm.. probably good idea. > 2. Alternatively we could use --socket-errors=on for all tests. > > 3. Couldn't we fix --no-act to not need an open /dev/log at all? But then it will introduce another fragility, complexity and difference between test (--no-act) and non-test mode. I see for example "if(ctl->fd < 0)" in code. Now it really skips write() only. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html