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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
| commit | 49a086299e047b18280457b654790ef4a2e5abfa (patch) | |
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Revert "rename open_issues.mdwn to service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663.mdwn"
This reverts commit 95878586ec7611791f4001a4ee17abf943fae3c1.
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diff --git a/open_issues/fcntl_locking_dev_null.mdwn b/open_issues/fcntl_locking_dev_null.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4c65a5c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/fcntl_locking_dev_null.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="fcntl locking /dev/null"]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + + +# IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-07-06 + + <pinotree> regarding the libwibble failure (which holds libbuffy → + libbuffy-bindings), the failing test happens because it logs to /dev/null + as test file, + <pinotree> and while doing that, it wants to lock it first, having a + ENOTSUP in return + <youpi> oh + <youpi> locking null, how interesting + <youpi> what is that supposed to do ? :o) + <pinotree> from what i was reading posix, it would seem that such object is + considered a "File" + <youpi> is it our unimplemented record lock, or just the lock operation + that /dev/null doesn't support ? + <youpi> what size is null supposed to be? zero, right? + <pinotree> the latter + <youpi> ah + <youpi> so we can simply make lock return 0 + <youpi> since there's no byte to lock? + <youpi> I don't remember whether you can lock unexistant bytes + <pinotree> indeed, if i change the libwibble unit test to use eg /tmp/foo, + they pas + <pinotree> s |