[LTP] [PATCH 0/5] syscalls: Add tests to verify the _time_high fields

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> > This patchset adds a new test to three syscalls to verify that the
> > extended fields, _time_high, are cleared by the kernel. This was
> > suggested by Arnd.
> >
> > I did run them, but on a 64 bit machine. Please see if you can check
> > that they work properly on 32 bit machines, where we really want to test
> > them. This is rebased over ltp master.
> >
> > Cyril, This conflicts a bit with my other time64 syscall tests, I will
> > rebase one of these, after you apply any of these first :)
> 
> The known bugs we had here were actually on 64-bit machines running
> compat 32-bit user space. You should be able to test this on most
> 64-bit distros using the compat libraries and building ltp against the
> 32-bit version (not sure what the best way is to configure that, but it
> should not be hard).

We run LTP compiled with -m32 in our automation in SUSE precisely
because of these reasons. Not sure if somebody else does that.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz