On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 02:44:47AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: > > Does this mean that NetBSD's /proc/self/fd does not work for opening files? > > it probably works. but unlike linux, netbsd's procfs is somewhat optional. > procfs might not be mounted on every systems. besides that, i personally > don't want to wide spread the use of the feature esp. for things like this, > for which there are alternative solutions.
If it works, then why does the test fail? If procfs isn't mounted, then it should get skipped. > > A better solution would be, instead of testing uname, to test whether proc > > works in the required way. That could be done from configure and tested > > both from C and from the test suite. > > i'm not sure if a configure time test is appropriate for this. I agree, I didn't realize that there would be build vs. host issues. > while i don't claim the patch i submitted is an ideal solution, > it fixes the existing problem. I don't understand the existing problem yet (see above). Can you explain it better? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
