[LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/statx04: use stx_attributes_mask before test

[Xu, Yang/徐 杨]

on 2019/08/27 18:16, Cyril Hrubis wrote:

> Hi!
>> also Cyril noted on Github issue #557 [1]:
>> "However I'm not sure that we should do this since kernel devs declared this to be bug after all."
>>
>> So maybe we should wait before applying it.
>>
>> @Cyril: can you please post link to discussion in LKML?
> I've talked to Jan Kara in person while developing these tests, so there
> is no track of this discussion.
>
> I guess that the best we can do here is to:
>
> * Apply this patch, since the test should generally check only for flags
>    that are supported in the bitflag returned by the syscall
>
> * Add another test that checks that these bitflags are enabled for new
>    enough kernels for certain set of filesystems

Hi Cyril

Do you mean use getxattr to ensure bitflags are enable or a functions test?
I am confused.

Thanks
Yang Xu

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