[LTP] getpwnam(nobody) failed

[$rik@nth]

Re-sending.. if anyone have some insight into bionic libc to fix most
of the LTP tests where nobody user is needed.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:32 AM, $rik@nth <srikanth007m@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any help would really unblocks lot of users those who are running LTP
> on Android platform.
>
> TIA.
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:01 PM, $rik@nth <srikanth007m@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Cyril,
>>
>> I came across the implementation of getpwnam in bionic. But i am not
>> getting on how to overcome to apply bionic changes to existing LTP for
>> checking.
>>
>> https://github.com/android/platform_bionic/blob/master/libc/bionic/stubs.cpp
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:04 PM, $rik@nth <srikanth007m@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks Cyril for chiming into the issue. But still it is creating
>>> these nodes and users with permissions. There might be a use for some
>>> operations  which needs to be running by nobody. Its just a guess, as
>>> i didn't dive into bionic libc as you did it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone in this group running LTP on android and observed similar
>>> issue. Any pointers to fix this issue would really helps to lot of
>>> users running LTP on android platform.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>> Need some help in understanding the behavior of failure cases though
>>>>> user 'nobody' is present. I am unable to figure it out as i am running
>>>>> them on android kernel.
>>>>
>>>> I glanced over the bionic libc for android and it looks like /etc/passwd
>>>> is not used at all. The calls are emualted using some android_id_info
>>>> database there. I'm afraid that you have to look deeper into the bionic
>>>> libc to figure out how exactly this works.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cyril Hrubis
>>>> chrubis@suse.cz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>> M.Srikanth Kumar.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> M.Srikanth Kumar.
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> M.Srikanth Kumar.



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Thanks & Regards,
M.Srikanth Kumar.