On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:03:00PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> xfstest generic/193 is *supposed* to test behaviour of suid/sgid bits
> and clearing them is various situations.
>
> You know what I'm about to say, don't you? The test doesn't test
> what it thinks it is testing. it puts the destination file in root
> directory of the xfstests harness, not in the filesystems being
> tested.
awesome, two bugs for the price of one!
> So, on all my machines, it runs on ext3 filesystems, never on the
> ext4, btrfs, xfs, etc filesystems that I'm actually testing.
>
> That's beside the point, because it doesn't test truncate behaviour.
> But at least I know now why my attempts to reproduce the problem
> didn't work...
>
> Right, patch below should fix the problem.
Haven't seen anything out of the ordinary since I applied that,
so I'd call it good.
> What a frustrating bug. Now, where's my bottle of scotch?
heh, enjoy the weekend.
Dave
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