(fyi) Re: VSX_BLKDEV_FILE

Andrew Josey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.test-suite
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Fyi , i raised the question regarding the setting for
VSX_BLKDEV_FILE with my engineers.
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> Would it work to set VSX_BLKDEV_FILE in vsx to the non-existent block
> device created for the ENXIO tests? 

Yes, any file for which S_ISBLK(st_mode) is true can be used for
VSX_BLKDEV_FILE.

> There has been a request for this as part of the LSB testing.
> I think the tests affected are POSIX.hdr/misc/stat ,POSIX.os/dataform/tar,
> POSIX.os/files/stat_X.  It appears to work, do you know
> of any problems this might cause.

There shouldn't be any problems.

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regards
Andrew
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