On Tue, 22 May 2007, Warner Losh wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Is this the same bug that used to be in sendfile but got corrected some
years back?
Dunno, but it sounds like we really need a comprehensive set of edge-case
tests for sendfile.
There are those that advocate writing a test case that fails, then fixing
the code until the test case succeeds, then committing the test case to the
test-bed at the same time the code is committed to the tree. With the
test-case gating the code.
This works well for some thing, but we can't do it universally since some
test-cases would be only for 'rogue' hardware, which can't be automatically
tested.
In this case, the problem is that we already have a piece of complex subsystem
code without tests, so we bump into both regressions and new bugs with
moderate frequency, and need to write basic functional tests.
An interesting variable in test cases for sendfile, btw, is to use UNIX domain
sockets as a transport, not just TCP
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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