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Re: [hurd,commited] hurd: Fix build ot misc/tst-preadvwritev2-common.c


On 09/04/2017 02:36 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/09/2017 05:11, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 09/03/2017 05:52 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> +	* misc/tst-preadvwritev2-common.c (RWF_HIPRI, RWF_DSYNC, RWF_SYNC,
>>> +	RWF_NOWAIT): Define to 0 if undefined already.
>>> +	(do_test_with_invalid_flags): Set invalid_flag to 2 if RWF_SUPPORTED
>>> +	boils down to 0.
>>
>> I don't think this is correct.  preadv2 etc. are supposed to be part of
>> the GNU API, so if Hurd doesn't have definitions of the WRF_* constants,
>> that's a real bug.
> 
> I agree and the default implementation on sysdeps/posix/preadv2.c (which
> I think it is also the default of hurd) will fail for any flag different
> than 0. Should we add a note on manual the current flags are Linux only?

I would have expected that we'd add the flags to the generic API.

Florian


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