[LTP] [PATCH v3 4/7] fzsync: Add functionality test for library

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
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> +/* Basic functionality test for tst_fuzzy_sync.h similar to the atomic tests
> + * (test15.c). One thread writes to the odd indexes of an array while the
> + * other writes to the even. If the threads are not synchronised then they
> + * will probably write to the wrong indexes as they share an index variable
> + * which they should take it in turns to update.
> + */

I'm just wondering, wouldn't be a better test for the sync library if
one of the threads does short usleep(); and we would check if the delay
more or less corresponds to this value after some iterations?

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Cyril Hrubis
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