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Re: Small fix for test-lfs
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at linuxfromscratch dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:30:44 -0800
- Subject: Re: Small fix for test-lfs
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <40133794.8070609@linuxfromscratch.org>
Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> On my systems I get repeated failures of test-lfs during "make check",
> which seem to be caused by my use of Linux' tmpfs filesystem for my /tmp
> directory. Changing test-lfs to use the build directory for its tests
> causes it to pass with no problems.
This is working around a bug and nothing which will be done. If that
filesystem is incapable to provide the correct semantics, don't use it.
It's not the first filesystem with problems.
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